Where does “kuivamaito” come from?

kuivamaito (Finnish) comes from Finnish maito, from Proto-Finnic maito, from Proto-Uralic majδ̕ɜ.

kuivamaito (Finnish): dried milk

Definitions

  1. dried milk

Ancestry of “kuivamaito”, step by step

kuivamaito traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish maito

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmaitomilk; milk, non-dairy milk, plant milk
2Proto-Finnicmaitomilk
3Proto-Uralicmajδ̕ɜ—

via Finnish kuiva

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkuivadry; Indicative present connegative form of...
2Proto-Finnickuivadry
Every word from Proto-Uralic majδ̕ɜ →Every word from Proto-Finnic maito →Every word from Finnish maito →