Where does “kriisikausi” come from?

kriisikausi (Finnish) comes from Finnish kausi, from Proto-Finnic kauci, from Proto-Finno-Permic kawte — road? way? passage ?.

kriisikausi (Finnish): crisis period

Definitions

  1. crisis period

Ancestry of “kriisikausi”, step by step

kriisikausi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kausi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkausiperiod, age, epoch, season; term; period
2Proto-Finnickauci(section of a) road, way, path; part of a journey
3Proto-Finno-Permickawteroad? way? passage ?

via Finnish kriisi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkriisicrisis
2Swedishkriscrisis
Every word from Proto-Finno-Permic kawte →Every word from Proto-Finnic kauci →Every word from Finnish kausi →
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