Where does “huiskuvuoriminttu” come from?

huiskuvuoriminttu (Finnish) comes from Finnish vuoriminttu, from Finnish Vuori, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

huiskuvuoriminttu (Finnish): whorled mountainmint, Pycnanthemum verticillatum

Definitions

  1. whorled mountainmint, Pycnanthemum verticillatum

Ancestry of “huiskuvuoriminttu”, step by step

huiskuvuoriminttu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vuoriminttu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvuoriminttumountain mint plant of the genus
2FinnishVuorimountain large mass of earth and rock
3Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
4Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
5Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
6Proto-Finno-Ugric-s

via Finnish huisku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishhuiskuA whisk
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -sEvery word from Finnish -läEvery word from Finnish Vuori