Where does “Makela” come from?

Makela (English) comes from Finnish Mäkelä, from Finnish Mäki, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

Ancestry of “Makela”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishMäkeläAny of a number of small places in Finland
2FinnishMäkiAny of a number of small places in Finland
3Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
4Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
5Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
6Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish Mäki →