Where does “kääpiökotilo” come from?

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

kääpiökotilo (Finnish): Punctum pygmaeum species of very small, air-breathing land snail common in most of Northern Hemisphere

Definitions

  1. Punctum pygmaeum species of very small, air-breathing land snail common in most of Northern Hemisphere

Ancestry of “kääpiökotilo”, step by step

kääpiökotilo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kotilo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkotilogastropod, mollusc, seashell, snail; the shell of...
2Finnish-löFront vowel variant of -lo
3Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
4Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
5Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
6Proto-Finno-Ugric-s

via Finnish kääpiö

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkääpiömidget, dwarf; dwarf star, dwarf
2Finnish-ioForms nouns from verbs or verbal stems; Forms...
3Finnish-oForms result or action nouns from verbs; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-oForms action/result nouns from verbs
5Proto-Uralic-w
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -sEvery word from Finnish -läEvery word from Finnish -lö
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