Where does “sotavoimat” come from?

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

sotavoimat (Finnish): armed forces

Definitions

  1. armed forces

Ancestry of “sotavoimat”, step by step

sotavoimat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sota

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

via Finnish voimat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishvoimatNominative plural form of voima
Every word from Proto-Uralic śoďa →Every word from Proto-Finnic sota →Every word from Finnish sota →