Finnish word tavis comes from Finnish -is, Finnish tavallinen ihminen

Detailed word origin of tavis

Dictionary entry	Language	Definition
-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.
tavallinen ihminen	Finnish (fin)
tavis	Finnish (fin)	(colloquial) An ordinary person, a random (unimportant person), a nobody, Mr. Nobody.

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