Where does “maailmanperintö” come from?
maailmanperintö (Finnish) comes from Finnish maailma, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *maailma, from Finnish Ilma, from Finnish -ri, from Finnish -ra, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.
maailmanperintö (Finnish): world heritage
Definitions
- world heritage
Ancestry of “maailmanperintö”, step by step
maailmanperintö traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish maailma
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | maailma | the Earth; a world; a celestial body |
| 2 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *maailma | — |
| 3 | Finnish | Ilma | air |
| 4 | Finnish | -ri | Used to create names of occupations from nouns or... |
| 5 | Finnish | -ra | Forms nouns or adjectives, mostly from nominal... |
| 6 | Finnish | -i | A nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used... |
| 7 | Proto-Uralic | -j | oblique plural |
via Finnish perintö
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | perintö | heritage; inheritance; legacy |
| 2 | Finnish | periä | to inherit; to exact, tariff, dun; Partitive... |
| 3 | Finnish | perätä | to dun, question, try to find out; especially in... |
| 4 | Finnish | perä | rear, back, tail end; stern, aft; far end or side... |
| 5 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | perä | — |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | *perä | hindquarters, back part of something |