Where does “mäkilähtöavustin” come from?

mäkilähtöavustin (Finnish) comes from Finnish mäkilähtö, from Finnish Mäki, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

mäkilähtöavustin (Finnish): hill-start assist

Definitions

  1. hill-start assist

Ancestry of “mäkilähtöavustin”, step by step

mäkilähtöavustin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish mäkilähtö

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmäkilähtöhill start
2FinnishMäkiAny of a number of small places in Finland
3Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
4Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
5Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
6Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

via Finnish avustin

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishavustinassist a mechanism that assists
2Finnish-inSuffix variant for the illative singular, see...
3Proto-Finno-Ugric*-in—
4Proto-Uralic-ma—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →