i-am-not-anon:

My new favorite word in Finnish is:

Jommallakummalla

It means “either one of two persons/things has” which can be used in a sentence like “Avain on jommallakummalla veljistäsi”,“Either one of your brothers has the key”. Word is derived from “jompi kumpi” (either one of something) which is great term on itself.

Word “jommallakummalla” has 4 double consonants and both of the original words (jompi and kumpi) have “-lla” ending to indicate having something. Because it would be tricky to simply put the ending after the original word (jompilla) ancient Finns ingeinously changed the last part of the words “jompi” and “kumpi” from “-mpi” to “-mma”. If you don’t change the ending of those words, it becomes “jompillakumpilla” which actually is casual version of “jommillakummilla” which is the plural of “jommallakummalla” and means “either one of these groups has”

I love Finnish language.