Where does “muuttomies” come from?

muuttomies (Finnish) comes from Finnish mies, from Proto-Finnic mees, from Proto-Finnic meexes.

muuttomies (Finnish): house mover, mover

Definitions

  1. house mover, mover

Ancestry of “muuttomies”, step by step

muuttomies traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish mies

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmiesman; husband
2Proto-Finnicmeesman, male; husband
3Proto-Finnicmeexes—

via Finnish muutto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmuuttomove, relocation; migration
2Finnishmuuttaato modify, change, alter; to transform,...
3Finnish-elläFront vowel variant of -ella
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