Where does “kauramaito” come from?

kauramaito (Finnish) comes from Finnish kaura, from Proto-Oceanic *qauʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian qauʀ, from Proto-Austronesian qauʀ — bamboo.

kauramaito (Finnish): oat milk

Definitions

  1. oat milk

Ancestry of “kauramaito”, step by step

kauramaito traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kaura

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkauraoat, oats
2Proto-Oceanic*qauʀbamboo plant
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesianqauʀbamboo
4Proto-Austronesianqauʀbamboo

via Finnish maito

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmaitomilk; milk, non-dairy milk, plant milk
2Proto-Finnicmaitomilk
3Proto-Uralicmajδ̕ɜ—
Every word from Proto-Austronesian qauʀ →