Where does “kuivahedelmä” come from?

kuivahedelmä (Finnish) comes from Finnish kuiva, from Proto-Finnic kuiva — dry.

kuivahedelmä (Finnish): dried fruit

Definitions

  1. dried fruit

Ancestry of “kuivahedelmä”, step by step

kuivahedelmä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kuiva

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkuivadry; Indicative present connegative form of...
2Proto-Finnickuivadry

via Finnish hedelmä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhedelmäfruit
2Proto-Finnicheidelmä—
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