Where does “tasasäe” come from?

tasasäe (Finnish) comes from Finnish säe, from Finnish säie, from Finnish sää, from Proto-Finnic sää, from Proto-Finno-Ugric säŋe — air.

tasasäe (Finnish): a line of poetry written in the Kalevala trochaic tetrameter where initial stresses of words always lie on prosodically stressed syllables (the former of the two syllables of a foot) after the first foot

Definitions

  1. a line of poetry written in the Kalevala trochaic tetrameter where initial stresses of words always lie on prosodically stressed syllables (the former of the two syllables of a foot) after the first foot

Ancestry of “tasasäe”, step by step

tasasäe traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish säe

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsäeline, verse
2Finnishsäiethread, strand, fibre, filament; thread; string
3Finnishsääweather; you; fiber, thread, strand
4Proto-Finnicsääweather
5Proto-Finno-Ugricsäŋeair

via Finnish tasa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtasaof equal height; of the same level
2Proto-Finnictasaeven
3Proto-Uralictaśaeven
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric säŋe →Every word from Proto-Finnic sää →Every word from Finnish sää →