Where does “elintarvike” come from?

elintarvike (Finnish) comes from Finnish elin-, from Finnish -in, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *-in, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

elintarvike (Finnish): groceries; foodstuff

Definitions

  1. groceries; foodstuff

Ancestry of “elintarvike”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishelin-living, life
2Finnish-inSuffix variant for the illative singular, see...
3Proto-Finno-Ugric*-in
4Proto-Uralic-ma

Words derived from “elintarvike

Every word from Proto-Uralic -ma