Where does “kriisiala” come from?

kriisiala (Finnish) comes from Finnish älä, from Finnish ala-, from Proto-Finnic ala, from Proto-Uralic ëla — below.

kriisiala (Finnish): a sector in crisis, an industry in crisis

Definitions

  1. a sector in crisis, an industry in crisis

Ancestry of “kriisiala”, step by step

kriisiala traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish älä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishäläThe second-person singular form of the negative...
2Finnishala-under-, sub-, lower, nether; inferior
3Proto-Finnicalalower; under
4Proto-Uralicëlabelow

via Finnish kriisi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkriisicrisis
2Swedishkriscrisis
Every word from Proto-Uralic ëla →Every word from Finnish ala- →Every word from Proto-Finnic ala →