Where does “joenhaara” come from?

joenhaara (Finnish) comes from Finnish joki, from Finnish sokeus, from Finnish sokea, from Proto-Finnic sokeda — blind.

joenhaara (Finnish): river fork

Definitions

  1. river fork

Ancestry of “joenhaara”, step by step

joenhaara traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish joki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishjokiriver
2Finnishsokeusblindness
3Finnishsokeablind
4Proto-Finnicsokedablind

via Finnish haara

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhaarabranch; fork, bifurcation; offshoot
2Proto-Finnichaarabranch
Every word from Proto-Finnic sokeda →Every word from Finnish sokea →Every word from Finnish sokeus →