Where does “seerumitauti” come from?

seerumitauti (Finnish) comes from Finnish seerumi, from Latin Serum, from Proto-Indo-European sēr-, from Proto-Indo-European ser- — to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together.

seerumitauti (Finnish): serum sickness

Definitions

  1. serum sickness

Ancestry of “seerumitauti”, step by step

seerumitauti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish seerumi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishseerumiserum
2LatinSerumwhey
3Proto-Indo-Europeansēr-to flow
4Proto-Indo-Europeanser-to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together

via Finnish tauti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtautidisease
2Proto-Finnictautidisease, sickness
3Proto-Norsedauđi—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ser- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European sēr- →Every word from Latin Serum →
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