Where does “plioseenikausi” come from?

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

plioseenikausi (Finnish): The Pliocene

Definitions

  1. The Pliocene

Ancestry of “plioseenikausi”, step by step

plioseenikausi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kausi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkausiperiod, age, epoch, season; term; period
2Proto-Finnickauci(section of a) road, way, path; part of a journey
3Proto-Finno-Permickawteroad? way? passage ?

via Finnish plioseeni

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishplioseeniThe Pliocene

Words derived from “plioseenikausi”

Every word from Proto-Finno-Permic kawte →Every word from Proto-Finnic kauci →Every word from Finnish kausi →