Etymograph

English

Hiisi

Hiisi comes from Finnish hiisi ‘devil, demon’, and goes back to Proto-Finnic *hiici.

  1. Proto-Finnicprehistoric (reconstructed)*hiicireconstructed
  2. Finnishmodernhiisi‘devil, demon’
  3. EnglishtodayHiisi

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Finnicprehistoric (reconstructed)*hiicireconstructed
  2. Finnishmodernhiisi‘devil, demon’
  3. EnglishtodayHiisi

Today it means

name One of the components of the binary planetoid Lempo

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Finnic *hiici / Hiisi