Where does “sikalauma” come from?
sikalauma (Finnish) comes from Finnish lauma, from Finnish -ttain, from Finnish -ttaen.
sikalauma (Finnish): herd of swine
Ancestry of “sikalauma”, step by step
sikalauma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish lauma
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lauma | herd; crowd, mob, flock; pod |
| 2 | Finnish | -ttain | Forms distributive adverbs; Forms adverbs... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttaen | — |
via Finnish Sika
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Sika | Pig the twelfth animal in the 12-year cycle in Chinese zodiac |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | cika | pig |
| 3 | Proto-West Germanic | tigā | she-goat |