Where does “Niemelä” come from?

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

Niemelä (Finnish): Any of a number of small places in Finland

Definitions

  1. Any of a number of small places in Finland

Ancestry of “Niemelä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
2Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
3Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
4Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish -as →