Where does “pakkaskausi” come from?

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

pakkaskausi (Finnish): period of frost or subzero temperatures

Definitions

  1. period of frost or subzero temperatures

Ancestry of “pakkaskausi”, step by step

pakkaskausi 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 pakkanen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpakkanenfrost, sub-zero temperature of ambient air; in...
2Proto-Finnicpakkainenfrost
Every word from Proto-Finno-Permic kawte →Every word from Proto-Finnic kauci →Every word from Finnish kausi →