Where does “ajan merkki” come from?

ajan merkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish aika, from Finnish -isin, from Hungarian isi, from Hungarian -i, from Hungarian -é, from Albanian -ë, from Proto-West Germanic -jā, from Proto-Indo-European -íh₂ — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

ajan merkki (Finnish): sign of the times symbol of an era

Definitions

  1. sign of the times symbol of an era

Ancestry of “ajan merkki”, step by step

ajan merkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish aika

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishaikatime; time, moment; appointment
2Finnish-isinThe case suffix denoting temporal distributive;...
3Hungarianisischool
4Hungarian-iAdded to a proper noun, noun or postposition to...
5Hungarian-éUsed to form the lative, expressing the direction...
6Albanian-ë-ing, -ion
7Proto-West Germanic-jā—
8Proto-Indo-European-íh₂—
9Proto-Indo-European-h₂Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

via Finnish merkki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmerkkimark, sign; character; symbol
2Old Swedishmærki—
3Old Norsemerkiboundary
4Proto-Germanicmarkōborder, boundary; region, area
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmorǵ-edge, boundary, border; frontier, border
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -h₂ →Every word from Hungarian -i →Every word from Hungarian -é →