Where does “lamasalvos” come from?
lamasalvos (Finnish) comes from Finnish salvos, from Finnish salvoa, from Finnish -öä, from Proto-Finnic -odak, from Proto-Uralic -w-.
lamasalvos (Finnish): saddle notch
Ancestry of “lamasalvos”, step by step
lamasalvos traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish salvos
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | salvos | the result of notching or joining by means of notches, especially of logs in the corners of a loghouse |
| 2 | Finnish | salvoa | To notch |
| 3 | Finnish | -öä | Front vowel variant of -oa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -odak | Forms some verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -w- | — |
via Finnish lama
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lama | depression; paralysis, depression; lama |
| 2 | Tibetan | བླ་མ | lama - an accomplished spiritual teacher, guru |
| 3 | Tibetan | མ | mother; goddess; negates the following verb in... |
| 4 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | ma | no, not, negative, not have, none |
Words derived from “lamasalvos”