Where does “mioseenikausi” come from?

mioseenikausi (Finnish) comes from Finnish kausi, from Proto-Finnic kauci, from Proto-Finno-Permic kawte — road? way? passage ?.

mioseenikausi (Finnish): The Miocene epoch

Definitions

  1. The Miocene epoch

Ancestry of “mioseenikausi”, step by step

mioseenikausi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kausi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkausiperiod, age, epoch, season; term; period
2Proto-Finnickauci(section of a) road, way, path; part of a journey
3Proto-Finno-Permickawteroad? way? passage ?

via Finnish mioseeni

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishmioseeniThe Miocene epoch

Words derived from “mioseenikausi”

Every word from Proto-Finno-Permic kawte →Every word from Proto-Finnic kauci →Every word from Finnish kausi →