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...
3FinnishmäI
4FinnishminäI; ego; self
5Proto-FinnicminäI, me
6Uralic*minä—

via Livvi lehti

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