Where does “karimerkki” come from?
karimerkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish kari, from Russian Макарий, from Ancient Greek Μακάριος, from Ancient Greek -ισμός, from Ancient Greek -μός, from Proto-Indo-European -mós — Creates action/result nouns from verb stems.
karimerkki (Finnish): isolated danger mark seamark placed on or above an isolated danger of limited extent, e.g. a rock, which has navigable water around it
Definitions
- isolated danger mark seamark placed on or above an isolated danger of limited extent, e.g. a rock, which has navigable water around it
Ancestry of “karimerkki”, step by step
karimerkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.