Where does “lihassärky” come from?
lihassärky (Finnish) comes from Finnish lihas, from Finnish -s, from Proto-Finnic -nci, from Proto-Uralic -mte.
lihassärky (Finnish): myalgia, muscle pain
Ancestry of “lihassärky”, step by step
lihassärky 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 särky
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | särky | ache |
| 2 | Finnish | särkeä | to break, shatter, smash cause to break into two or more pieces |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | särkedäk | to be sore, to ache; to break |
| 4 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | ćärke- | — |