Where does “piirisarja” come from?

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

piirisarja (Finnish): chipset group of integrated circuits

Definitions

  1. chipset group of integrated circuits

Ancestry of “piirisarja”, step by step

piirisarja 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 sarja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsarjaseries; chain, sequence, succession, train; set
2Proto-Finnicsarjarow of laths or battens; a board made of laths
3Proto-Finno-Permicśarjalath, batten, bar
Every word from Proto-Uralic pire →Every word from Proto-Finnic piiri →Every word from Finnish piiri →