Where does “surusanoma” come from?

surusanoma (Finnish) comes from Finnish sanoma, from Finnish mä, from Finnish minä, from Proto-Finnic minä, from Uralic *minä.

surusanoma (Finnish): message of grief, message of loss

Definitions

  1. message of grief, message of loss

Ancestry of “surusanoma”, step by step

surusanoma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sanoma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishsanomaA message, communication; Agent participle of...
2FinnishmäI
3FinnishminäI; ego; self
4Proto-FinnicminäI, me
5Uralic*minä—

via Finnish suru

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsurusorrow, grief, woe; Swedish Finn
2FinnishsurraTo mourn, grieve
3Proto-Finnicsurdakto die
4Finnishsure-—
Every word from Uralic *minä →Every word from Proto-Finnic minä →Every word from Finnish minä →