Where does “ALS-tauti” come from?

ALS-tauti (Finnish) comes from Finnish tauti, from Proto-Finnic tauti, from Proto-Norse dauđi.

ALS-tauti (Finnish): Lou Gehrig's disease

Definitions

  1. Lou Gehrig's disease

Ancestry of “ALS-tauti”, step by step

ALS-tauti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tauti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtautidisease
2Proto-Finnictautidisease, sickness
3Proto-Norsedauđi—

via Finnish ALS

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishALS—
Every word from Proto-Norse dauđi →Every word from Proto-Finnic tauti →Every word from Finnish tauti →