Where does “vuosituhat” come from?
vuosituhat (Finnish) comes from Finnish vuosi, from Proto-Finnic vooci, from Proto-Finnic oote, from Proto-Uralic ëde — year.
vuosituhat (Finnish): A millennium
Ancestry of “vuosituhat”, step by step
vuosituhat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish vuosi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vuosi | year |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | vooci | year |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | oote | — |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | ëde | year |
via Finnish tuhat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tuhat | API; one thousand; Nominative plural form of... |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | tuhat | thousand |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | tuHsont- | thousand |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | tewh₂- | to swell; to crowd; to be strong |
Words derived from “vuosituhat”