Where does “palkintokilpailu” come from?
palkintokilpailu (Finnish) comes from Finnish palkinto, from Finnish -ntö, from Finnish -mö, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.
palkintokilpailu (Finnish): prize competition
Ancestry of “palkintokilpailu”, step by step
palkintokilpailu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish palkinto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | palkinto | prize, award |
| 2 | Finnish | -ntö | — |
| 3 | Finnish | -mö | Front vowel variant of -mo |
| 4 | Finnish | -i | A nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -j | oblique plural |
via Finnish kilpailu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kilpailu | contest, competition, race; competition; rivalry |
| 2 | Finnish | -u | Forms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -u | Forms nouns from adjectives, nouns |