Where does “ilmakupla” come from?
ilmakupla (Finnish) comes from Finnish Ilma, from Finnish -ri, from Finnish -ra, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.
ilmakupla (Finnish): An air bubble
Ancestry of “ilmakupla”, step by step
ilmakupla traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish Ilma
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Ilma | air |
| 2 | Finnish | -ri | Used to create names of occupations from nouns or... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ra | Forms nouns or adjectives, mostly from nominal... |
| 4 | Finnish | -i | A nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -j | oblique plural |
via Finnish kupla
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kupla | bubble spherically contained volume of air or other gas |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | kupla | bubble |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | kupla | to bubble |