Where does “Emajõgi” come from?

Emajõgi (Estonian) comes from Estonian ema, from Proto-Finnic emä, from Proto-Uralic emä — mother.

Emajõgi (Estonian): with a length of 101 km which flows from Lake Võrtsjärv through Tartu County into Lake Peipus, crossing the city of Tartu for 10 km

Definitions

  1. with a length of 101 km which flows from Lake Võrtsjärv through Tartu County into Lake Peipus, crossing the city of Tartu for 10 km

Ancestry of “Emajõgi”, step by step

Emajõgi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Estonian ema

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Estonianemamother; a reproductive female animal in a hive; a...
2Proto-Finnicemämother
3Proto-Uralicemämother

via Estonian jõgi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Estonianjõgiriver
2Proto-Finnicjokiriver
3Proto-Uralicjokeriver

Words derived from “Emajõgi”

Every word from Proto-Uralic emä →Every word from Proto-Finnic emä →Every word from Estonian ema →