Where does “kuolinsanoma” come from?

kuolinsanoma (Finnish) comes from Finnish sanoma, from Finnish mä, from Finnish minä, from Proto-Finnic minä, from Uralic *minä.

kuolinsanoma (Finnish): news of someone's death

Definitions

  1. news of someone's death

Ancestry of “kuolinsanoma”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishsanomaA message, communication; Agent participle of...
2FinnishmäI
3FinnishminäI; ego; self
4Proto-FinnicminäI, me
5Uralic*minä—
Every word from Uralic *minä →Every word from Proto-Finnic minä →Every word from Finnish minä →