Where does “puna-viherheikkous” come from?

puna-viherheikkous (Finnish) comes from Finnish puna, from Proto-Finnic puna, from Proto-Finno-Ugric puna — color, hair.

puna-viherheikkous (Finnish): partial red-green color blindness either deuteranomaly or protanomaly

Definitions

  1. partial red-green color blindness either deuteranomaly or protanomaly

Ancestry of “puna-viherheikkous”, step by step

puna-viherheikkous traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puna

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishpunaThe color red
2Proto-Finnicpunared
3Proto-Finno-Ugricpunacolor, hair

via Finnish heikkous

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishheikkousA weakness; feebleness; frailty
2Finnishheikkoweak; faint; feeble
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