seitsemän (Finnish)

Where does "seitsemän" come from?

The Finnish word 'seitsemän' traces its origins back to the ancient Proto-Uralic root *ćäjćemä, meaning 'seven.' Over millennia, it evolved through Proto-Finnic into the modern term, which is a close relative of the Estonian 'seitse' and the Erzya 'sisem.' Interestingly, the modern form of the word adopted the genitive case ending, likely influenced by the numerical structure of other Finnish numbers ending in consonants.

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