Where does “onnettomuusalue” come from?

onnettomuusalue (Finnish) comes from Finnish onnettomuus, from Finnish onneton, from Finnish onni, from Proto-Finnic onni — luck.

onnettomuusalue (Finnish): accident scene

Definitions

  1. accident scene

Ancestry of “onnettomuusalue”, step by step

onnettomuusalue traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish onnettomuus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishonnettomuusaccident; misfortune; unhappiness, miserableness,...
2Finnishonnetonunhappy; miserable; wretched
3Finnishonnihappiness; luck
4Proto-Finniconniluck

via Finnish alue

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishaluearea; region; oblast
2Proto-Austronesianqaluʀto flow
3Proto-Austronesian-luʀ—
Every word from Proto-Finnic onni →Every word from Finnish onni →Every word from Finnish onneton →