Where does “puna-vihersokea” come from?

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

puna-vihersokea (Finnish): red-green blind

Definitions

  1. red-green blind

Ancestry of “puna-vihersokea”, step by step

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

via Finnish puna

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

via Finnish sokea

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsokeablind
2Proto-Finnicsokedablind
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric puna →Every word from Proto-Finnic puna →Every word from Finnish puna →