Where does “PR-mies” come from?

PR-mies (Finnish) comes from Finnish mies, from Proto-Finnic mees, from Proto-Finnic meexes.

PR-mies (Finnish): PR man

Definitions

  1. PR man

Ancestry of “PR-mies”, step by step

PR-mies traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish mies

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmiesman; husband
2Proto-Finnicmeesman, male; husband
3Proto-Finnicmeexes—

via Finnish PR

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishPRPR, public relations
2EnglishPRInitialism of public relations; Initialism of...
Every word from Proto-Finnic meexes →Every word from Proto-Finnic mees →Every word from Finnish mies →