Where does “nimisõna” come from?

nimisõna (Estonian) comes from Estonian nimi, from Proto-Finnic nimi, from Proto-Uralic nime — name.

nimisõna (Estonian): noun

Definitions

  1. noun

Ancestry of “nimisõna”, step by step

nimisõna traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Estonian nimi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Estonianniminame; nominal
2Proto-Finnicniminame
3Proto-Uralicnimename

via Estonian sõna

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Estoniansõnaword
2Proto-Finnicsanaword
Every word from Proto-Uralic nime →Every word from Proto-Finnic nimi →Every word from Estonian nimi →