Where does “puna-vihersokeus” come from?

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

puna-vihersokeus (Finnish): red-green color blindness either deuteranopia or protanopia

Definitions

  1. red-green color blindness either deuteranopia or protanopia

Ancestry of “puna-vihersokeus”, step by step

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

via Finnish puna

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

via Finnish sokeus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsokeusblindness
2Finnishsokeablind
3Proto-Finnicsokedablind
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric puna →Every word from Proto-Finnic puna →Every word from Finnish puna →