Where does “Suolahti” come from?
Suolahti (Finnish) comes from Finnish suo, from Finnish Mäki, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.
Suolahti (Finnish): now part of Äänekoski
Ancestry of “Suolahti”, step by step
Suolahti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish suo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | suo | swamp, bog, marsh, mire; Third-person singular... |
| 2 | Finnish | Mäki | Any of a number of small places in Finland |
| 3 | Finnish | -lä | Front vowel variant of -la |
| 4 | Finnish | -as | Forms some adjectives; Forms some nouns |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -s | Forms nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | -s | — |
via Finnish Lahti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Lahti | a city in southern Finland |
| 2 | Finnish | lahdata | To slaughter |
| 3 | Swedish | slakta | to slaughter, to butcher |
| 4 | Middle Low German | slachten | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | slahaną | to hit, to strike; to kill |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | slak- | to hit; strike; to hit, strike, throw; to hit,... |