Where does “ordoviikkikausi” come from?

ordoviikkikausi (Finnish) comes from Finnish kausi, from Proto-Finnic kauci, from Proto-Finno-Permic kawte — road? way? passage ?.

ordoviikkikausi (Finnish): Ordovician, Ordovician period

Definitions

  1. Ordovician, Ordovician period

Ancestry of “ordoviikkikausi”, step by step

ordoviikkikausi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kausi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkausiperiod, age, epoch, season; term; period
2Proto-Finnickauci(section of a) road, way, path; part of a journey
3Proto-Finno-Permickawteroad? way? passage ?

via Finnish ordoviikki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishordoviikkiOrdovician
Every word from Proto-Finno-Permic kawte →Every word from Proto-Finnic kauci →Every word from Finnish kausi →