elää

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • (intransitive) To live, be alive.
  • (intransitive) To live (somewhere).

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *elädäk inherited from Proto-Uralic *elä-.

Origin

Proto-Uralic

*elä-

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