Where does “lihassäie” come from?
lihassäie (Finnish) comes from Finnish lihas, from Finnish -s, from Proto-Finnic -nci, from Proto-Uralic -mte.
lihassäie (Finnish): myofibril
Ancestry of “lihassäie”, step by step
lihassäie traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish lihas
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lihas | muscle |
| 2 | Finnish | -s | Forms ordinal numbers from cardinal numbers, or... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -nci | Forms ordinal numbers from the corresponding... |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -mte | — |
via Finnish säie
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | säie | thread, strand, fibre, filament; thread; string |
| 2 | Finnish | sää | weather; you; fiber, thread, strand |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | sää | weather |
| 4 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | säŋe | air |