Where does “kiiltopensas” come from?

kiiltopensas (Finnish) comes from Finnish pensas, from Proto-Finnic pensas, from Proto-Finnic pensa.

kiiltopensas (Finnish): spotted laurel, Japanese laurel, Japanese aucuba, gold dust plant, Aucuba japonica shrub native to rich forest soils of moist valleys, thickets, by streams and near shaded moist rocks in China, Korea, and Japan, common garden plant

Definitions

  1. spotted laurel, Japanese laurel, Japanese aucuba, gold dust plant, Aucuba japonica shrub native to rich forest soils of moist valleys, thickets, by streams and near shaded moist rocks in China, Korea, and Japan, common garden plant

Ancestry of “kiiltopensas”, step by step

kiiltopensas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pensas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpensasbush; shrub
2Proto-Finnicpensasbush
3Proto-Finnicpensa—

via Finnish kiilto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkiiltoglint, gleam, shine; lustre
2Finnish-öFront vowel variant of -o
Every word from Proto-Finnic pensa →Every word from Proto-Finnic pensas →Every word from Finnish pensas →