Where does “polttokenttäkalmisto” come from?

polttokenttäkalmisto (Finnish) comes from Finnish polttokenttä, from Finnish poltto, from Finnish polttaa, from Proto-Finnic polttadak, from Proto-Finnic paladak, from Proto-Uralic pala- — to devour, eat.

polttokenttäkalmisto (Finnish): an ancient graveyard where the ashes of the cremated were spread over a large area

Definitions

  1. an ancient graveyard where the ashes of the cremated were spread over a large area

Ancestry of “polttokenttäkalmisto”, step by step

polttokenttäkalmisto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish polttokenttä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpolttokenttä—
2Finnishpolttoburn, burning; burn; incineration
3Finnishpolttaato burn; to burn, sunburn; to burn, waste
4Proto-Finnicpolttadakto burn
5Proto-Finnicpaladakto burn, to be burning
6Proto-Uralicpala-to devour, eat

via Finnish kalmisto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkalmistocemetery, graveyard; especially an ancient one
2Finnishkalmadeath
3Proto-Finnickalmagrave; death
4Proto-Uralickalmagrave; ? death
5Proto-Uralickale-to die
Every word from Proto-Uralic pala- →
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