Where does “kuusenleppärousku” come from?

kuusenleppärousku (Finnish) comes from Finnish leppärousku, from Finnish rousku, from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u — Forms nouns from adjectives, nouns.

kuusenleppärousku (Finnish): false saffron milk-cap or bitterer milchling,...

Definitions

  1. false saffron milk-cap or bitterer milchling,...

Ancestry of “kuusenleppärousku”, step by step

kuusenleppärousku traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish leppärousku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishleppärouskuEither of the two species of milk-caps
2FinnishrouskuA milk-cap
3Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
4Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns

via Finnish kuusi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkuusisix; spruce; Norway spruce, "Picea abies"
2Proto-Finnickuucisix
3Proto-Uralickutteridge; six
Every word from Proto-Finnic -uEvery word from Finnish -uEvery word from Finnish rousku