Where does “sortokausi” come from?

sortokausi (Finnish) comes from Finnish kausi, from Proto-Finnic kauci, from Proto-Finno-Permic kawte — road? way? passage ?.

sortokausi (Finnish): period of oppression; in Finnish history...

Definitions

  1. period of oppression; in Finnish history...

Ancestry of “sortokausi”, step by step

sortokausi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kausi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkausiperiod, age, epoch, season; term; period
2Proto-Finnickauci(section of a) road, way, path; part of a journey
3Proto-Finno-Permickawteroad? way? passage ?

via Finnish sorto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsortooppression, persecution, repression; leeway
2Finnishsortaato trample; to oppress, persecute, tyrannize,...
3Proto-Finnicsortadakto tip over, make fall over or down
Every word from Proto-Finno-Permic kawte →Every word from Proto-Finnic kauci →Every word from Finnish kausi →