Where does “osuma-alue” come from?

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

osuma-alue (Finnish): impact area

Definitions

  1. impact area

Ancestry of “osuma-alue”, step by step

osuma-alue traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish osuma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishosumahit
2FinnishmäI
3FinnishminäI; ego; self
4Proto-FinnicminäI, me
5Uralic*minä—

via Finnish alue

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