Where does “talvikausi” come from?
talvikausi (Finnish) comes from Finnish talvi, from Proto-Finnic talvi, from Proto-Uralic tälwä — winter.
talvikausi (Finnish): winter season
Ancestry of “talvikausi”, step by step
talvikausi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish talvi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | talvi | winter |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | talvi | winter |
| 3 | Proto-Uralic | tälwä | winter |
via Finnish kausi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kausi | period, age, epoch, season; term; period |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | kauci | (section of a) road, way, path; part of a journey |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Permic | kawte | road? way? passage ? |