Where does “nirhama” come from?

nirhama (Finnish) comes from Finnish mä, from Finnish minä, from Proto-Finnic minä, from Uralic *minä.

nirhama (Finnish): chip

Definitions

  1. chip

Ancestry of “nirhama”, step by step

nirhama traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish mä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishmäI
2FinnishminäI; ego; self
3Proto-FinnicminäI, me
4Uralic*minä—

via Finnish nirhata

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnirhatato cut away a little piece of something, such as with a blunt tool
Every word from Uralic *minä →Every word from Proto-Finnic minä →Every word from Finnish minä →