Where does “mäkileinikki” come from?

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

mäkileinikki (Finnish): bulbous buttercup, Ranunculus bulbosus

Definitions

  1. bulbous buttercup, Ranunculus bulbosus

Ancestry of “mäkileinikki”, step by step

mäkileinikki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Mäki

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

via Finnish leinikki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishleinikkibuttercup
2Finnish-kkiCreates action nouns from verbs; Creates...
3Proto-Finnic-kkei—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish Mäki →