Where does “ongelmavyyhti” come from?
ongelmavyyhti (Finnish) comes from Finnish ongelma, from Finnish -lma, from Finnish -ella, from Proto-Finnic -eldak, from Proto-Uralic -le-.
ongelmavyyhti (Finnish): bundle of problems, hydra
Definitions
- bundle of problems, hydra
Ancestry of “ongelmavyyhti”, step by step
ongelmavyyhti 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 vyyhti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vyyhti | skein; a tangle, a complex weave; Third-person... |
| 2 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *viühti | — |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | wiftiz | weaving |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | webaną | to weave |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | webʰ- | to weave, braid |