Where does “lamakausi” come from?
lamakausi (Finnish) comes from Finnish lama, from Tibetan བླ་མ, from Tibetan མ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ma — no, not, negative, not have, none.
lamakausi (Finnish): A depression
Ancestry of “lamakausi”, step by step
lamakausi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish lama
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lama | depression; paralysis, depression; lama |
| 2 | Tibetan | བླ་མ | lama - an accomplished spiritual teacher, guru |
| 3 | Tibetan | མ | mother; goddess; negates the following verb in... |
| 4 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | ma | no, not, negative, not have, none |
via Finnish kausi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kausi | period, age, epoch, season; term; period |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | kauci | (section of a) road, way, path; part of a journey |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Permic | kawte | road? way? passage ? |