Where does “karvankohottajalihas” come from?

karvankohottajalihas (Finnish) comes from Finnish lihas, from Finnish -s, from Proto-Finnic -nci, from Proto-Uralic -mte.

karvankohottajalihas (Finnish): hair erector muscle, arrector pili

Definitions

  1. hair erector muscle, arrector pili

Ancestry of “karvankohottajalihas”, step by step

karvankohottajalihas traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lihas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlihasmuscle
2Finnish-sForms ordinal numbers from cardinal numbers, or...
3Proto-Finnic-nciForms ordinal numbers from the corresponding...
4Proto-Uralic-mte

via Finnish karva

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkarvahair; fur; colors, stripes
2Proto-Finnickarvahair; color
3Proto-Finnickawra

via Finnish kohottaja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkohottajaraiser
2Finnish-jäFront vowel variant of -ja
Every word from Proto-Uralic -mteEvery word from Finnish -sEvery word from Proto-Finnic -nci