Where does “pesämuna” come from?

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

pesämuna (Finnish): nest egg

Definitions

  1. nest egg

Ancestry of “pesämuna”, step by step

pesämuna traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pesä

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

via Finnish müŋä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmüŋäegg
Every word from Proto-Uralic pesä →Every word from Proto-Finnic pesä →Every word from Finnish pesä →