Where does “ruumiskalmisto” come from?

ruumiskalmisto (Finnish) comes from Finnish kalmisto, from Finnish kalma, from Proto-Finnic kalma, from Proto-Uralic kalma, from Proto-Uralic kale- — to die.

ruumiskalmisto (Finnish): an ancient graveyard where people were buried

Definitions

  1. an ancient graveyard where people were buried

Ancestry of “ruumiskalmisto”, step by step

ruumiskalmisto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kalmisto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkalmistocemetery, graveyard; especially an ancient one
2Finnishkalmadeath
3Proto-Finnickalmagrave; death
4Proto-Uralickalmagrave; ? death
5Proto-Uralickale-to die

via Finnish ruumis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishruumisbody; corpse, cadaver
2Proto-Finnicruumisbody
Every word from Proto-Uralic kale- →