Where does “salasanoma” come from?

salasanoma (Finnish) comes from Finnish sanoma, from Finnish mä, from Finnish minä, from Proto-Finnic minä, from Uralic *minä.

salasanoma (Finnish): secret message, encrypted message

Definitions

  1. secret message, encrypted message

Ancestry of “salasanoma”, step by step

salasanoma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sanoma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishsanomaA message, communication; Agent participle of...
2FinnishmäI
3FinnishminäI; ego; self
4Proto-FinnicminäI, me
5Uralic*minä—

via Finnish sala

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishsalaA secret
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*sala—
3Proto-Uralicśalaelm
Every word from Uralic *minä →Every word from Proto-Finnic minä →Every word from Finnish minä →