Where does “piirileikki” come from?

piirileikki (Finnish) comes from Finnish piiri, from Proto-Finnic piiri, from Proto-Uralic pire — circle.

piirileikki (Finnish): ring game; a play or children's game involving a ring or rings of people

Definitions

  1. ring game; a play or children's game involving a ring or rings of people

Ancestry of “piirileikki”, step by step

piirileikki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish piiri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpiiriring of people; administrative district, region;...
2Proto-Finnicpiiriline; border; ring, circle
3Proto-Uralicpirecircle

via Finnish leikki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishleikkiplay; Third-person singular indicative past form...
2Old Swedishleker—

Words derived from “piirileikki”

Every word from Proto-Uralic pire →Every word from Proto-Finnic piiri →Every word from Finnish piiri →
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