Where does “mississippialaiskausi” come from?

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

Ancestry of “mississippialaiskausi”, step by step

mississippialaiskausi 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 Mississippi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishMississippi—
2EnglishMississippiUsed in a common chronometric counting scheme, in...
3Ojibwemisi-ziibigreat river
Every word from Proto-Finno-Permic kawte →Every word from Proto-Finnic kauci →Every word from Finnish kausi →