Where does “maitoravinto” come from?
maitoravinto (Finnish) comes from Finnish ravinto, from Finnish -ntö, from Finnish -mö, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.
maitoravinto (Finnish): milk diet
Ancestry of “maitoravinto”, step by step
maitoravinto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ravinto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ravinto | nutrition, nourishment, nutriment; nutritional |
| 2 | Finnish | -ntö | — |
| 3 | Finnish | -mö | Front vowel variant of -mo |
| 4 | Finnish | -i | A nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -j | oblique plural |
via Finnish maito
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | maito | milk; milk, non-dairy milk, plant milk |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | maito | milk |
| 3 | Proto-Uralic | majδ̕ɜ | — |