Where does “kierrekotilo” come from?

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

kierrekotilo (Finnish): twisted ramshorn, Bathyomphalus contortus species of small air-breathing freshwater snail that lives in freshwater habitats especially small, impoverished water-bodies and drains and marshy or peaty pools

Definitions

  1. twisted ramshorn, Bathyomphalus contortus species of small air-breathing freshwater snail that lives in freshwater habitats especially small, impoverished water-bodies and drains and marshy or peaty pools

Ancestry of “kierrekotilo”, step by step

kierrekotilo 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 kierre

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkierrethread; worm; helix; whirl, spiral
2Finnishkiertääto turn, twist, screw, rotate; to roll; to wind,...
3Proto-Finnickeertädäkto turn; to spin thread
4Proto-Finnickeerätwisted
5Proto-Uralickerä—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish -lö →