Where does “amurinvaahtera” come from?

amurinvaahtera (Finnish) comes from Finnish vaahtera, from Proto-Finnic vahtera — maple.

amurinvaahtera (Finnish): A species of maple, Manchurian striped maple,...

Definitions

  1. A species of maple, Manchurian striped maple,...

Ancestry of “amurinvaahtera”, step by step

amurinvaahtera traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vaahtera

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvaahteramaple any tree of the genus
2Proto-Finnicvahteramaple

via Finnish Amur

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishAmurAmur Asian river
2Russianаму́рCupid
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