Where does “elintarvikeala” come from?

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

elintarvikeala (Finnish): food industry, food sector, food business

Definitions

  1. food industry, food sector, food business

Ancestry of “elintarvikeala”, step by step

elintarvikeala traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish elintarvike

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishelintarvikegroceries; foodstuff
2Finnishelin-living, life
3Finnish-inSuffix variant for the illative singular, see...
4Proto-Finno-Ugric*-in—
5Proto-Uralic-ma—

via Finnish älä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishäläThe second-person singular form of the negative...
2Finnishala-under-, sub-, lower, nether; inferior
3Proto-Finnicalalower; under
4Proto-Uralicëlabelow
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ma →