Finnish word mahis comes from Finnish mahdollisuus, Finnish -is

Detailed word origin of mahis

Dictionary entry	Language	Definition
mahdollisuus	Finnish (fin)	A chance (opportunity, possibility or probability). A possibility. A probability.. An opportunity (chance for advancement, progress or profit).
-is	Finnish (fin)	(colloquial) -er; a suffix used to form nouns and proper nouns from place names, common nouns and adjectives; gives a familiar nuance to the original word; the original word is often truncated in the process.
mahis	Finnish (fin)	(colloquial) chance, possibility.

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