Where does “sanomalehtisali” come from?

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

sanomalehtisali (Finnish): a part of a library dedicated to newspapers

Definitions

  1. a part of a library dedicated to newspapers

Ancestry of “sanomalehtisali”, step by step

sanomalehtisali traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sanomalehti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishsanomalehtiA newspaper
2FinnishsanomaA message, communication; Agent participle of...
3FinnishmäI
4FinnishminäI; ego; self
5Proto-FinnicminäI, me
6Uralic*minä—

via Finnish sali

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsalihall; A large room, often one in which dinners...
2Swedishsäla seal
3Old Norseselrseal; second-person singular present indicative...
4Proto-Germanicselhazseal
5Proto-Indo-Europeanselk-to pull, drag; to drag, to furrow; to pull, draw
Every word from Uralic *minä →Every word from Proto-Finnic minä →Every word from Finnish minä →