Where does “pyrimidiiniemäs” come from?

pyrimidiiniemäs (Finnish) comes from Finnish emäs, from Finnish emä, from Proto-Finnic emä, from Proto-Uralic emä — mother.

pyrimidiiniemäs (Finnish): pyrimidine base

Definitions

  1. pyrimidine base

Ancestry of “pyrimidiiniemäs”, step by step

pyrimidiiniemäs traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish emäs

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishemäsbase
2Finnishemämother; mother of an animal, dam; womb
3Proto-Finnicemämother
4Proto-Uralicemämother

via Finnish pyrimidiini

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpyrimidiinipyrimidine
Every word from Proto-Uralic emä →Every word from Proto-Finnic emä →Every word from Finnish emä →