Where does “kouți” come from?

kouți (Livonian) comes from Finnish kautta, from Finnish kausi, from Proto-Finnic kauci, from Proto-Finno-Permic kawte — road? way? passage ?.

kouți (Livonian): via, through

Definitions

  1. via, through

Ancestry of “kouți”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkauttathrough, via, by; throughout; by, through
2Finnishkausiperiod, age, epoch, season; term; period
3Proto-Finnickauci(section of a) road, way, path; part of a journey
4Proto-Finno-Permickawteroad? way? passage ?
Every word from Proto-Finno-Permic kawte →Every word from Proto-Finnic kauci →Every word from Finnish kausi →