Where does “sanomulehti” come from?

sanomulehti (Livvi) comes from Finnish sanomalehti, from Finnish sanoma, from Finnish mä, from Finnish minä, from Proto-Finnic minä, from Uralic *minä.

sanomulehti (Livvi): newspaper

Definitions

  1. newspaper

Ancestry of “sanomulehti”, step by step

sanomulehti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sanomalehti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishsanomalehtiA newspaper
2FinnishsanomaA message, communication; Agent participle of...
3FinnishI
4FinnishminäI; ego; self
5Proto-FinnicminäI, me
6Uralic*minä

via Livvi lehti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Livvilehti
Every word from Uralic *minäEvery word from Proto-Finnic minäEvery word from Finnish minä