Where does “melusaaste” come from?

melusaaste (Finnish) comes from Finnish saaste, from Finnish saasta, from Proto-Finnic saasta.

melusaaste (Finnish): noise pollution, noise pollutant

Definitions

  1. noise pollution, noise pollutant

Ancestry of “melusaaste”, step by step

melusaaste traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish saaste

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsaastepollution; pollutant
2Finnishsaastafilth
3Proto-Finnicsaasta—

via Finnish melu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmelunoise
Every word from Proto-Finnic saasta →Every word from Finnish saasta →Every word from Finnish saaste →