Where does “kuivuuskausi” come from?

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

kuivuuskausi (Finnish): drought, period of drought

Definitions

  1. drought, period of drought

Ancestry of “kuivuuskausi”, step by step

kuivuuskausi 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 kuivuus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkuivuusdryness; drought
2Finnishkuivadry; Indicative present connegative form of...
3Proto-Finnickuivadry
Every word from Proto-Finno-Permic kawte →Every word from Proto-Finnic kauci →Every word from Finnish kausi →