Where does “Kalliovuoret” come from?

Kalliovuoret (Finnish) comes from Finnish Vuori, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

Kalliovuoret (Finnish): The Rocky Mountains

Definitions

  1. The Rocky Mountains

Ancestry of “Kalliovuoret”, step by step

Kalliovuoret traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Vuori

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishVuorimountain large mass of earth and rock
2Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
3Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
4Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
5Proto-Finno-Ugric-s

via Finnish Kallio

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishKallioAny of a number of small places in Finland
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*kallijo
3Proto-Germanichallijǭ

Words derived from “Kalliovuoret

Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -sEvery word from Finnish -läEvery word from Finnish Vuori
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