Where does “emäsika” come from?

emäsika (Finnish) comes from Finnish emä, from Proto-Finnic emä, from Proto-Uralic emä — mother.

emäsika (Finnish): sow, female pig

Definitions

  1. sow, female pig

Ancestry of “emäsika”, step by step

emäsika traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish emä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishemämother; mother of an animal, dam; womb
2Proto-Finnicemämother
3Proto-Uralicemämother

via Finnish Sika

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishSikaPig the twelfth animal in the 12-year cycle in Chinese zodiac
2Proto-Finniccikapig
3Proto-West Germanictigāshe-goat
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