Where does “ilmavaivat” come from?
ilmavaivat (Finnish) comes from Finnish Ilma, from Finnish -ri, from Finnish -ra, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.
ilmavaivat (Finnish): flatulence
Ancestry of “ilmavaivat”, step by step
ilmavaivat 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 vaiva
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vaiva | bother, inconvenience; ailment |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | vaiva | bother, inconvenience; pain, illness, torment |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | waiwô | woe, grief, misery; evil, wickedness, malice |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | wai | oh!; woe! |