Where does “harmaakiipijähiiri” come from?
harmaakiipijähiiri (Finnish) comes from Finnish kiipijähiiri, from Finnish kiipijä, from Finnish jä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ja, from Proto-Germanic jahw, from Proto-Germanic -hw, from Proto-Germanic -hwe, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.
Ancestry of “harmaakiipijähiiri”, step by step
harmaakiipijähiiri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kiipijähiiri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kiipijähiiri | climbing mouse appears in common names of mouse-like rodents in the genera Dendromus, Dendroprionomys, Irenomys, Megadendromus, Pogonomys, Rhipidomys and Vernaya |
| 2 | Finnish | kiipijä | climber; a bird of the genus "Climacteris"; the... |
| 3 | Finnish | jä | ice |
| 4 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *ja | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | jahw | and, also |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -hw | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -hwe | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
via Finnish harmaa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | harmaa | grey, gray; grey, gray, dreary, gloomy; The... |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | harmaga | grey, gray |
| 3 | Proto-Baltic | śirˀmas | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱr̥-m-os | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |