Where does “mineraalikuitu” come from?

mineraalikuitu (Finnish) comes from Finnish mineraali, from Swedish mineral, from Latin minerale, from Latin mineria.

mineraalikuitu (Finnish): mineral fiber

Definitions

  1. mineral fiber

Ancestry of “mineraalikuitu”, step by step

mineraalikuitu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish mineraali

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmineraalimineral
2Swedishmineralmineral
3Latinmineralemineral, ore, mine; nominative neuter singular of...
4Latinmineria—

via Finnish kuitu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkuitufiber, fibre; filament; Short for ravintokuitu
2Proto-Finnickuitu(flax) fibre/fiber
3Proto-Finno-Permickujčɜ—
Every word from Latin mineria →Every word from Latin minerale →Every word from Swedish mineral →