Where does “vahakoisa” come from?

vahakoisa (Finnish) comes from Finnish koisa, from Finnish sä, from Finnish sinä, from Proto-Finnic cinä, from Proto-Uralic tinä — you, thou.

vahakoisa (Finnish): wax moth either of the two species of moth whose larvae feed on beeswax

Definitions

  1. wax moth either of the two species of moth whose larvae feed on beeswax

Ancestry of “vahakoisa”, step by step

vahakoisa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish koisa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkoisasnout moth, pyralid, pyralid moth, grass moth;...
2Finnishsäyou, ya
3Finnishsinäyou second-person singular personal pronoun, used in familiar or neutral contexts, thou
4Proto-Finniccinäyou
5Proto-Uralictinäyou, thou

via Finnish vähä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvähäthe little; little, few, scarce
2Proto-Finnicvähäsmall amount, little

Words derived from “vahakoisa”

Every word from Proto-Uralic tinä →Every word from Proto-Finnic cinä →Every word from Finnish sinä →