Where does “hintaviidakko” come from?

hintaviidakko (Finnish) comes from Finnish viidakko, from Finnish viita, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

hintaviidakko (Finnish): mess of prices, tangle of prices, confusing pricing

Definitions

  1. mess of prices, tangle of prices, confusing pricing

Ancestry of “hintaviidakko”, step by step

hintaviidakko traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish viidakko

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishviidakkothicket; jungle
2FinnishviitaA thicket of young deciduous trees
3Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
4Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
5Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
6Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

via Finnish hinta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhintaprice
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*hinta—
3Proto-Balticśímta—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish -as →