Where does “kriisikunta” come from?

kriisikunta (Finnish) comes from Finnish kunta, from Proto-Finnic kunta, from Proto-Finno-Ugric kunta.

kriisikunta (Finnish): A municipality that has been assessed as being in financial trouble by the Finnish Ministry of Finance, which may mandate the municipal government to take actions such as cut costs or to merge into or with another municipality

Definitions

  1. A municipality that has been assessed as being in financial trouble by the Finnish Ministry of Finance, which may mandate the municipal government to take actions such as cut costs or to merge into or with another municipality

Ancestry of “kriisikunta”, step by step

kriisikunta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kunta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkuntamunicipality, commune; local political division;...
2Proto-Finnickuntacommunity; group of people
3Proto-Finno-Ugrickunta—

via Finnish kriisi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkriisicrisis
2Swedishkriscrisis
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric kunta →Every word from Proto-Finnic kunta →Every word from Finnish kunta →