Where does “surm” come from?

surm (Livonian) comes from Estonian surm, from Proto-Finnic surma, from Proto-Uralic *śurma.

surm (Livonian): death

Definitions

  1. death

Ancestry of “surm”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Estoniansurmdeath
2Proto-Finnicsurmadeath
3Proto-Uralic*śurma—
Every word from Proto-Uralic *śurma →Every word from Proto-Finnic surma →Every word from Estonian surm →