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From the desert aavikko (desert) +sta (elative, movement out of) or +lta (ablative, movement away from something) (slrpnk.net)
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If i wanted to say I am from the desert would it be Olen aavikolta or Olen aavikosta? Or is there is a better suffix to use?

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[–] turdas@suppo.fi 5 points 5 days ago

"Aavikolta" would be more typical in this case.

Place name inflections in the "from" sense are quite arbitrary in Finnish, I don't think there's any consistent rule for them. You can be from aavikolta and mereltä and Tampereelta, but metsästä and ilmasta and Turusta.