Where does “puutostauti” come from?

puutostauti (Finnish) comes from Finnish tauti, from Proto-Finnic tauti, from Proto-Norse dauđi.

puutostauti (Finnish): deficiency disease

Definitions

  1. deficiency disease

Ancestry of “puutostauti”, step by step

puutostauti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tauti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtautidisease
2Proto-Finnictautidisease, sickness
3Proto-Norsedauđi—

via Finnish puutos

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpuutosdeficiency
2Finnishpuuttuato be missing; "inanimate thing in elative" or...
3Proto-Finnicpuuttudakto catch (onto), snag, get caught in/on
Every word from Proto-Norse dauđi →Every word from Proto-Finnic tauti →Every word from Finnish tauti →