Where does “kalakanta” come from?

kalakanta (Finnish) comes from Finnish kanta, from Proto-Finnic kanta, from Proto-Finno-Ugric kanta.

kalakanta (Finnish): fish stock, fish population living resources of one or several species of fish in a population or within a specific area

Definitions

  1. fish stock, fish population living resources of one or several species of fish in a population or within a specific area

Ancestry of “kalakanta”, step by step

kalakanta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kanta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkantastem; position, opinion, point of view, account;...
2Proto-Finnickantaheel
3Proto-Finno-Ugrickanta

via Finnish kala

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkalafish; fishing; seafood
2Proto-Finnickalafish
3Proto-Uralickäläfish

Words derived from “kalakanta

Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric kanta
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