Where does “amerikanloikkahiiri” come from?

amerikanloikkahiiri (Finnish) comes from Finnish Amerikka, from Russian Америка, from New Latin America, from Italian Amerigo, from Proto-Germanic *Amalarīks, from Proto-Germanic Haimarīks, from Proto-Germanic rīks, from Proto-Celtic rīxs — to straighten, to right oneself; right; just.

amerikanloikkahiiri (Finnish): woodland jumping mouse, Napaeozapus insignis

Definitions

  1. woodland jumping mouse, Napaeozapus insignis

Ancestry of “amerikanloikkahiiri”, step by step

amerikanloikkahiiri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Amerikka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishAmerikkaAmerica's; American; of America
2RussianАмерика
3New LatinAmerica
4ItalianAmerigo
5Proto-Germanic*Amalarīks
6Proto-GermanicHaimarīksHenry
7Proto-Germanicrīksking, ruler
8Proto-Celticrīxsking
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃rḗǵsking, ruler
10Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃reǵ-to straighten, to right oneself; right; just

via Finnish loikkahiiri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishloikkahiirijumping mouse rodent in the subfamily Zapodinae of the family Dipodidae - jerboas
2FinnishloikkaA leap
3FinnishloikataTo leap; To defect
4Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
5Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
6Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₃reǵ-Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₃rḗǵsEvery word from Proto-Celtic rīxs