Where does “uskonsota” come from?

uskonsota (Finnish) comes from Finnish sota, from Proto-Finnic sota, from Proto-Uralic śoďa — war.

uskonsota (Finnish): religious war

Definitions

  1. religious war

Ancestry of “uskonsota”, step by step

uskonsota traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sota

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsotawar; warfare; military, war-
2Proto-Finnicsotawar, conflict
3Proto-Uralicśoďawar

via Finnish usko

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishuskofaith; religious; Indicative present connegative...
2Proto-Finnic*uskofaith, belief
Every word from Proto-Uralic śoďa →Every word from Proto-Finnic sota →Every word from Finnish sota →