Where does “loikkahiiri” come from?

loikkahiiri (Finnish) comes from Finnish loikka, from Finnish loikata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

loikkahiiri (Finnish): jumping mouse rodent in the subfamily Zapodinae of the family Dipodidae - jerboas

Definitions

  1. jumping mouse rodent in the subfamily Zapodinae of the family Dipodidae - jerboas

Ancestry of “loikkahiiri”, step by step

loikkahiiri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish loikka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishloikkaA leap
2FinnishloikataTo leap; To defect
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish hiiri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishhiiriA mouse, used rather indiscriminately for a...
2Proto-Finnichiirimouse
3Proto-Uralicšiŋeremouse

Words derived from “loikkahiiri”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish loikka →