Where does “muuttolintu” come from?

muuttolintu (Finnish) comes from Finnish lintu, from Proto-Finnic lintu, from Proto-Uralic lunta — bird; goose.

muuttolintu (Finnish): migratory bird

Definitions

  1. migratory bird

Ancestry of “muuttolintu”, step by step

muuttolintu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lintu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlintubird; poultry
2Proto-Finniclintubird
3Proto-Uralicluntabird; goose

via Finnish muutto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmuuttomove, relocation; migration
2Finnishmuuttaato modify, change, alter; to transform,...
3Finnish-elläFront vowel variant of -ella
Every word from Proto-Uralic lunta →