Where does “liiturousku” come from?

liiturousku (Finnish) comes from Finnish liitu, from Swedish klita, from Middle Low German krite, from Latin Crēta, from Latin -āceus, from Latin -āx, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

liiturousku (Finnish): fleecy milk-cap, "Lactarius vellereus"

Definitions

  1. fleecy milk-cap, "Lactarius vellereus"

Ancestry of “liiturousku”, step by step

liiturousku traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish liitu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishliituchalk
2Swedishklitachalk
3Middle Low Germankrite
4LatinCrētachalk
5Latin-āceusaceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to
6Latin-āxish, -y
7Latin-iumSuffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes...
8Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
9Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
10Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems

via Finnish rousku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishrouskuA milk-cap
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yósEvery word from Latin -iumEvery word from Latin -ius
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