Where does “ongelmavuori” come from?
ongelmavuori (Finnish) comes from Finnish ongelma, from Finnish -lma, from Finnish -ella, from Proto-Finnic -eldak, from Proto-Uralic -le-.
ongelmavuori (Finnish): mountain of problems
Ancestry of “ongelmavuori”, step by step
ongelmavuori traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ongelma
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ongelma | problem, trouble; puzzle |
| 2 | Finnish | -lma | Forms nouns, mostly from verbs |
| 3 | Finnish | -ella | Forms . The resulting verb often describes a more... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -eldak | Forms frequentative verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -le- | — |
via Finnish Vuori
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Vuori | mountain large mass of earth and rock |
| 2 | Finnish | -lä | Front vowel variant of -la |
| 3 | Finnish | -as | Forms some adjectives; Forms some nouns |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -s | Forms nouns |
| 5 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | -s | — |