Where does “grönlanninkoira” come from?
grönlanninkoira (Finnish) comes from Finnish koira, from Finnish -nen, from Finnish -inen, from Finnish -uus, from Proto-Finnic -uc — -ness, -hood.
grönlanninkoira (Finnish): Greenland dog
Ancestry of “grönlanninkoira”, step by step
grönlanninkoira traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish koira
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | koira | dog; dog paddle; military police |
| 2 | Finnish | -nen | Forms diminutives nouns or terms expressing... |
| 3 | Finnish | -inen | -like, -ous, -y; -en; Creates adjectives from... |
| 4 | Finnish | -uus | Forms nouns from adjectives, expressing a quality |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -uc | -ness, -hood |
via Finnish Grönlanti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Grönlanti | of Greenland; Greenland |
| 2 | Old Norse | Grœnland | Greenland |
| 3 | Old Norse | grœnn | green, fresh; good, fit |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | grōniz | green |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰreh₁- | to become green, grow; to grow; to green, to grow |