Where does “unihalvaus” come from?
unihalvaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish uni, from Proto-Finnic uni, from Proto-Finno-Permic une.
unihalvaus (Finnish): sleep paralysis
Ancestry of “unihalvaus”, step by step
unihalvaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish uni
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | uni | dream; sleep |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | uni | sleep; dream |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Permic | une | — |
via Finnish halvaus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | halvaus | paralysis; arrest; as in sydänhalvaus; stroke |
| 2 | Finnish | -us | Forms nouns from verbs, describing an action or... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -us | Forms some nouns from nominal stems |