Where does “seinämä” come from?

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

seinämä (Finnish): wall

Definitions

  1. wall

Ancestry of “seinämä”, step by step

seinämä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish mä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishmäI
2FinnishminäI; ego; self
3Proto-FinnicminäI, me
4Uralic*minä—

via Finnish seinä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishseinäwall; mains; Essive singular form of sei
2Proto-Finnicsainawall

Words derived from “seinämä”

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