Where does “sanomalehti” come from?

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

sanomalehti (Finnish): A newspaper

Definitions

  1. A newspaper

Ancestry of “sanomalehti”, step by step

sanomalehti 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 Lehti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishLehtileaf part of a plant
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*lehti—

Words derived from “sanomalehti”

Every word from Uralic *minä →Every word from Proto-Finnic minä →Every word from Finnish minä →