Where does “raudanluja” come from?

raudanluja (Finnish) comes from Finnish rauta, from Proto-Finnic rauta — iron.

raudanluja (Finnish): ironclad, cast-iron, tough as iron

Definitions

  1. ironclad, cast-iron, tough as iron

Ancestry of “raudanluja”, step by step

raudanluja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish rauta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrautairon; shackles, irons; act of getting or state of...
2Proto-Finnicrautairon

via Finnish luja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlujafirm; sound; loud
2Finnish-ntääFront vowel variant of -ntaa
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