Where does “muistelma” come from?
muistelma (Finnish) comes from Finnish mä, from Finnish minä, from Proto-Finnic minä, from Uralic *minä.
muistelma (Finnish): memoirs autobiography
Ancestry of “muistelma”, step by step
muistelma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish mä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | mä | I |
| 2 | Finnish | minä | I; ego; self |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | minä | I, me |
| 4 | Uralic | *minä | — |
via Finnish muistella
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | muistella | to reminisce, recall, recollect, think back; to... |
| 2 | Finnish | muistaa | to remember, recall, recollect; Third-person... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | muistadak | to understand |
| 4 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | muja- | to touch, feel |
Words derived from “muistelma”