Where does “kääpiörihmakala” come from?

kääpiörihmakala (Finnish) comes from Finnish kääpiö, from Finnish -io, from Finnish -o, from Proto-Finnic -o, from Proto-Uralic -w.

kääpiörihmakala (Finnish): dwarf gourami, Trichogaster lalius tropical freshwater fish native to South Asia, used in aquarium trade for which several color varieties have been bred

Definitions

  1. dwarf gourami, Trichogaster lalius tropical freshwater fish native to South Asia, used in aquarium trade for which several color varieties have been bred

Ancestry of “kääpiörihmakala”, step by step

kääpiörihmakala traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

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—

via Finnish rihmakala

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrihmakalagourami freshwater fish of the family Osphronemidae
2Finnishkalafish; fishing; seafood
3Proto-Finnickalafish
4Proto-Uralickäläfish
Every word from Proto-Uralic -w →Every word from Finnish -o →Every word from Proto-Finnic -o →