Where does “pakkasilma” come from?

pakkasilma (Finnish) comes from Finnish Ilma, from Finnish -ri, from Finnish -ra, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.

pakkasilma (Finnish): chilly air, air that has a temperature below zero Celsius

Definitions

  1. chilly air, air that has a temperature below zero Celsius

Ancestry of “pakkasilma”, step by step

pakkasilma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Ilma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishIlmaair
2Finnish-riUsed to create names of occupations from nouns or...
3Finnish-raForms nouns or adjectives, mostly from nominal...
4Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
5Proto-Uralic-joblique plural

via Finnish pakkanen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpakkanenfrost, sub-zero temperature of ambient air; in...
2Proto-Finnicpakkainenfrost
Every word from Proto-Uralic -j →Every word from Finnish -i →Every word from Finnish -ri →
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