Where does “elintarvikekemisti” come from?

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

elintarvikekemisti (Finnish): food chemist

Definitions

  1. food chemist

Ancestry of “elintarvikekemisti”, step by step

elintarvikekemisti 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 kemisti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkemistichemist
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ma