Where does “kiilusilmä” come from?

kiilusilmä (Finnish) comes from Finnish silmä, from Proto-Finnic silmä, from Proto-Uralic śilmä — eye.

kiilusilmä (Finnish): eyeshine visual effect caused by tapetum lucidum

Definitions

  1. eyeshine visual effect caused by tapetum lucidum

Ancestry of “kiilusilmä”, step by step

kiilusilmä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish silmä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsilmäeye; mesh, opening in a mesh or net
2Proto-Finnicsilmäeye
3Proto-Uralicśilmäeye

via Finnish kiilua

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishkiiluaTo glimmer
2Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
3Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs

Words derived from “kiilusilmä”

Every word from Proto-Uralic śilmä →