Where does “veneilykausi” come from?
veneilykausi (Finnish) comes from Finnish veneily, from Finnish veneillä, from Finnish vene, from Proto-Finnic veneh — boat.
veneilykausi (Finnish): boating season
Ancestry of “veneilykausi”, step by step
veneilykausi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish veneily
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | veneily | boating |
| 2 | Finnish | veneillä | to boat; adessive plural of vene |
| 3 | Finnish | vene | boat |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | veneh | boat |
via Finnish kausi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kausi | period, age, epoch, season; term; period |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | kauci | (section of a) road, way, path; part of a journey |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Permic | kawte | road? way? passage ? |