Where does “lännenloikkahiiri” come from?
lännenloikkahiiri (Finnish) comes from Finnish loikkahiiri, from Finnish loikka, from Finnish loikata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.
lännenloikkahiiri (Finnish): western jumping mouse, Zapus princeps
Definitions
- western jumping mouse, Zapus princeps
Ancestry of “lännenloikkahiiri”, step by step
lännenloikkahiiri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish loikkahiiri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | loikkahiiri | jumping mouse rodent in the subfamily Zapodinae of the family Dipodidae - jerboas |
| 2 | Finnish | loikka | A leap |
| 3 | Finnish | loikata | To leap; To defect |
| 4 | Finnish | -ta | A suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms... |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ta | Partitive ending |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -tä | from |