Where does “sotasankari” come from?

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

sotasankari (Finnish): war hero

Definitions

  1. war hero

Ancestry of “sotasankari”, step by step

sotasankari traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sota

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

via Finnish sankari

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsankarihero, heroine; great capricorn beetle
2Old Swedishsangaresinger
Every word from Proto-Uralic śoďa →Every word from Proto-Finnic sota →Every word from Finnish sota →