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Where does “onteloeläin” come from?

onteloeläin (Finnish) comes from Finnish ontelo, from Finnish -lö, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

onteloeläin (Finnish): coelenterate; any animal of the phyla Ctenophora...

Definitions

  1. coelenterate; any animal of the phyla Ctenophora...

Ancestry of “onteloeläin”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishontelocavity; sinus; coelenteron
2Finnish-löFront vowel variant of -lo
3Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
4Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
5Proto-Finnic-s—
6Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →