Where does “elämänkatsomus” come from?

elämänkatsomus (Finnish) comes from Finnish katsomus, from Finnish -mus, from Finnish -ma, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

elämänkatsomus (Finnish): view of life, worldview

Definitions

  1. view of life, worldview

Ancestry of “elämänkatsomus”, step by step

elämänkatsomus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish katsomus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkatsomusbeliefs, tenet, philosophy
2Finnish-musForms nouns from verbs. Variant of -us used with...
3Finnish-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; The suffix...
4Proto-Finnic-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the...
5Proto-Uralic-ma

via Finnish elämä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishelämälife; Agent participle of elää
2Estonianelamato live
3Proto-Finnicelädäkto live
4Proto-Uralicelä-to live

Words derived from “elämänkatsomus

Every word from Proto-Uralic -maEvery word from Proto-Finnic -maEvery word from Finnish -mus