Where does “kohottajalihas” come from?

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

kohottajalihas (Finnish): lifting muscle, levator

Definitions

  1. lifting muscle, levator

Ancestry of “kohottajalihas”, step by step

kohottajalihas traces back through two 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 kohottaja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkohottajaraiser
2Finnish-jäFront vowel variant of -ja
Every word from Proto-Uralic -mte →Every word from Finnish -s →Every word from Proto-Finnic -nci →