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Where does “pleistoseenikausi” come from?

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

pleistoseenikausi (Finnish): The Pleistocene

Definitions

  1. The Pleistocene

Ancestry of “pleistoseenikausi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkausiperiod, age, epoch, season; term; period
2Proto-Finnickauci—
3Proto-Finno-Permickawteroad? way? passage ?

Words derived from “pleistoseenikausi”

  • pleistoseenikautinen
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