Cognates of the Finnish word "ilma" ('air') are attested in almost all the main Finno-Ugric languages apart from the Mari and Mordvinic languages, allowing the reconstruction of proto-Finno-Ugric *"ilma" meaning something like 'sky'. This noun is also attested as the name of a god in Khanty ("Num-Iləm"), Komi ("Jen"), Udmurt ("Inmar") and the Finnic languages, suggesting that proto-Finno-Ugric likewise had a sky god credited with creating the sky called *"Ilma". In Proto-Finnic, the suffix -"r(i)", which is used to form words for people associated with the root word, was added to *"ilma" to give the god-name *"Ilmar(i)" ('Sky-being'); rare attestations of similar forms such as Udmurt "Ilmar" and Sámi "Ilmaris" seem to be loans from Finnic.) In Kalevala metre poetry, the diminutive suffix -"nen" enabled the formation of the name "Ilmarinen", which neatly fills two trochaic feet and so became the dominant form of the name in that tradition.