Where does “rautamuuri” come from?

rautamuuri (Finnish) comes from Finnish muuri, from Old Swedish mur, from Latin mūrus, from Old Latin moerus, from Proto-Indo-European mēy- — soft, tender, dear.

rautamuuri (Finnish): firewall implemented on hardware

Definitions

  1. firewall implemented on hardware

Ancestry of “rautamuuri”, step by step

rautamuuri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish muuri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmuuriwall; barrier, wall
2Old Swedishmur—
3Latinmūruswall, city wall(s), (usually of a city, as opposed to pariēs)
4Old Latinmoerus—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmēy-soft, tender, dear

via Finnish rauta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrautairon; shackles, irons; act of getting or state of...
2Proto-Finnicrautairon
Every word from Proto-Indo-European mēy- →Every word from Old Latin moerus →Every word from Latin mūrus →