Where does “hanhilauma” come from?

hanhilauma (Finnish) comes from Finnish lauma, from Finnish -ttain, from Finnish -ttaen.

hanhilauma (Finnish): flock of geese

Definitions

  1. flock of geese

Ancestry of “hanhilauma”, step by step

hanhilauma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lauma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlaumaherd; crowd, mob, flock; pod
2Finnish-ttainForms distributive adverbs; Forms adverbs...
3Finnish-ttaen—

via Finnish hanhi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhanhigoose
2Proto-Finnichanhigoose
3Proto-Finnicšanši—
Every word from Finnish -ttaen →