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mikš
- why, because of what, for what reason (interrogative)
- Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “зачем, отчего, почему”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary][1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika