Where does “pakkashalkeama” come from?

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

pakkashalkeama (Finnish): frost crack

Definitions

  1. frost crack

Ancestry of “pakkashalkeama”, step by step

pakkashalkeama traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish halkeama

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishhalkeamaA crevice; A fissure; A rift
2FinnishmäI
3FinnishminäI; ego; self
4Proto-FinnicminäI, me
5Uralic*minä—

via Finnish pakkanen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpakkanenfrost, sub-zero temperature of ambient air; in...
2Proto-Finnicpakkainenfrost
Every word from Uralic *minä →Every word from Proto-Finnic minä →Every word from Finnish minä →