Where does “muurahaispesä” come from?

muurahaispesä (Finnish) comes from Finnish pesä, from Proto-Finnic pesä, from Proto-Uralic pesä — nest.

muurahaispesä (Finnish): ant nest, ant colony; beehive, hive, hive of...

Definitions

  1. ant nest, ant colony; beehive, hive, hive of...

Ancestry of “muurahaispesä”, step by step

muurahaispesä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pesä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpesänest; den; hive
2Proto-Finnicpesänest
3Proto-Uralicpesänest

via Finnish muurahainen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmuurahainenant; The family Formicidae
2Proto-Germanicmiurijǭant
3Proto-Indo-Europeanmowro-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic pesä →Every word from Proto-Finnic pesä →Every word from Finnish pesä →
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