Where does “jauhokoisa” come from?

jauhokoisa (Finnish) comes from Finnish koisa, from Finnish sä, from Finnish sinä, from Proto-Finnic cinä, from Proto-Uralic tinä — you, thou.

jauhokoisa (Finnish): Mediterranean flour moth, Indian flour moth, mill...

Definitions

  1. Mediterranean flour moth, Indian flour moth, mill...

Ancestry of “jauhokoisa”, step by step

jauhokoisa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish koisa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkoisasnout moth, pyralid, pyralid moth, grass moth;...
2Finnishsäyou, ya
3Finnishsinäyou second-person singular personal pronoun, used in familiar or neutral contexts, thou
4Proto-Finniccinäyou
5Proto-Uralictinäyou, thou

via Finnish jauho

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishjauhoflour
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*jauho—
Every word from Proto-Uralic tinä →Every word from Proto-Finnic cinä →Every word from Finnish sinä →