Where does “Hormuzinsalmi” come from?

Hormuzinsalmi (Finnish) comes from Finnish Salmi, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

Hormuzinsalmi (Finnish): Strait of Hormuz

Definitions

  1. Strait of Hormuz

Ancestry of “Hormuzinsalmi”, step by step

Hormuzinsalmi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Salmi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishSalmiA town in Russian Karelia
2Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
3Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
4Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
5Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

via English Hormuz

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishHormuz—
2Persianهرمزplace name of various regions
3Middle Persian𐭠𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭬𐭦𐭣—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →