Where does “loppuvuosikymmen” come from?
loppuvuosikymmen (Finnish) comes from Finnish vuosikymmen, from Finnish vuosi, from Proto-Finnic vooci, from Proto-Finnic oote, from Proto-Uralic ëde — year.
loppuvuosikymmen (Finnish): final decade within a century, millennium, etc.; possibly in plural for the final decades
Definitions
- final decade within a century, millennium, etc.; possibly in plural for the final decades
Ancestry of “loppuvuosikymmen”, step by step
loppuvuosikymmen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish vuosikymmen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vuosikymmen | decade, ten years |
| 2 | Finnish | vuosi | year |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | vooci | year |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | oote | — |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | ëde | year |