Where does “lounasravintola” come from?

lounasravintola (Finnish) comes from Finnish ravintola, from Finnish ravinto, from Finnish -ntö, from Finnish -mö, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.

lounasravintola (Finnish): lunch restaurant

Definitions

  1. lunch restaurant

Ancestry of “lounasravintola”, step by step

lounasravintola traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish ravintola

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishravintolarestaurant
2Finnishravintonutrition, nourishment, nutriment; nutritional
3Finnish-ntö—
4Finnish-möFront vowel variant of -mo
5Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
6Proto-Uralic-joblique plural

via Finnish lounas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlounassouthwest; lunch
2Proto-Finniclounas—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -j →Every word from Finnish -i →Every word from Finnish -ntö →