Where does “hontelo” come from?

hontelo (Finnish) comes from Finnish -lö, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

hontelo (Finnish): lanky, gangly

Definitions

  1. lanky, gangly

Ancestry of “hontelo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-löFront vowel variant of -lo
2Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
3Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
4Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
5Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish -lö →