Where does “pesäkolo” come from?

pesäkolo (Finnish) comes from Finnish pesä, from Proto-Finnic pesä, from Proto-Uralic pesä — nest.

pesäkolo (Finnish): burrow, colony

Definitions

  1. burrow, colony

Ancestry of “pesäkolo”, step by step

pesäkolo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pesä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpesänest; den; hive
2Proto-Finnicpesänest
3Proto-Uralicpesänest

via Finnish kolo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkolohole; groove; notch, indentation
2Proto-Finnickolohole
3Proto-Finno-Ugrickolɜ—
Every word from Proto-Uralic pesä →Every word from Proto-Finnic pesä →Every word from Finnish pesä →