Where does “sotakone” come from?

sotakone (Finnish) comes from Finnish sota, from Proto-Finnic sota, from Proto-Uralic śoďa — war.

sotakone (Finnish): war machine

Definitions

  1. war machine

Ancestry of “sotakone”, step by step

sotakone traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sota

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsotawar; warfare; military, war-
2Proto-Finnicsotawar, conflict
3Proto-Uralicśoďawar

via Finnish kone

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkonemachine; appliance; Short for lentokone
2Proto-Finnickonehmagic
Every word from Proto-Uralic śoďa →Every word from Proto-Finnic sota →Every word from Finnish sota →