Where does “teurasveri” come from?

teurasveri (Finnish) comes from Finnish veri, from Proto-Finnic veri, from Proto-Uralic were — blood.

teurasveri (Finnish): blood from a slaughter animal

Definitions

  1. blood from a slaughter animal

Ancestry of “teurasveri”, step by step

teurasveri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish veri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishveriblood
2Proto-Finnicveriblood
3Proto-Uralicwereblood

via Finnish teuras

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishteurasAn animal to be slaughtered
2Proto-Germanicþeurazbull
3Proto-Indo-Europeantáwroswild bull, aurochs
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