Where does “kreikanusko” come from?

kreikanusko (Finnish) comes from Finnish usko, from Proto-Finnic *usko — faith, belief.

kreikanusko (Finnish): Eastern Orthodoxy

Definitions

  1. Eastern Orthodoxy

Ancestry of “kreikanusko”, step by step

kreikanusko traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish usko

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishuskofaith; religious; Indicative present connegative...
2Proto-Finnic*uskofaith, belief

via Finnish kreikka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishkreikkaGreek language
2FinnishKreikkaGreece
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