Where does “kärse” come from?

kärse (Votic) comes from Finnish kärsä, from Finnish -mö, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.

kärse (Votic): snout of a pig

Definitions

  1. snout of a pig

Ancestry of “kärse”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkärsätrunk, proboscis; snout; proboscis
2Finnish-möFront vowel variant of -mo
3Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
4Proto-Uralic-joblique plural
Every word from Proto-Uralic -j →Every word from Finnish -i →Every word from Finnish -mö →
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