Where does “harsintametsä” come from?

harsintametsä (Finnish) comes from Finnish metsä, from Proto-Finnic *meccä, from Proto-Baltic medjas.

harsintametsä (Finnish): a forest with trees of mixed age and size

Definitions

  1. a forest with trees of mixed age and size

Ancestry of “harsintametsä”, step by step

harsintametsä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish metsä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmetsäforest, woods; bush; hunting
2Proto-Finnic*meccä—
3Proto-Balticmedjas—

via Finnish harsinta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishharsintatack loose seam
2Finnish-ntäFront vowel variant of -nta; API
3Proto-Finnic-ntaForms action nouns from verbs
Every word from Proto-Baltic medjas →Every word from Proto-Finnic *meccä →Every word from Finnish metsä →