Where does “rautameteoriitti” come from?

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

rautameteoriitti (Finnish): siderite, iron meteorite type of meteorite

Definitions

  1. siderite, iron meteorite type of meteorite

Ancestry of “rautameteoriitti”, step by step

rautameteoriitti 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 meteoriitti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmeteoriittimeteorite
Every word from Proto-Finnic rauta →Every word from Finnish rauta →
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