Where does “revonsara” come from?

revonsara (Finnish) comes from Finnish Repo, from Proto-Finnic repoi, from Proto-Finno-Ugric repä.

revonsara (Finnish): false fox-sedge

Definitions

  1. false fox-sedge

Ancestry of “revonsara”, step by step

revonsara traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Repo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishRepofox, Vulpes vulpes
2Proto-Finnicrepoifox
3Proto-Finno-Ugricrepä—

via Finnish šara

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishšara—
2Finnishsäristäto rattle, to creak; to crackle
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric repä →Every word from Proto-Finnic repoi →Every word from Finnish Repo →