Where does “kolmioepäyhtälö” come from?

kolmioepäyhtälö (Finnish) comes from Finnish epäyhtälö, from Finnish yhtälö, from Finnish -lö, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

kolmioepäyhtälö (Finnish): triangle inequality

Definitions

  1. triangle inequality

Ancestry of “kolmioepäyhtälö”, step by step

kolmioepäyhtälö traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish epäyhtälö

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishepäyhtälöinequality
2Finnishyhtälöequation
3Finnish-löFront vowel variant of -lo
4Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
5Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
6Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
7Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

via Finnish kolmio

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkolmiotriangle; three-room apartment; give way sign,...
2Finnishkolmethree
3Finnishkolmitri-
4Proto-Uralic*kolme—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish -lö →