Where does “pensasmustikka” come from?

pensasmustikka (Finnish) comes from Finnish pensas, from Proto-Finnic pensas, from Proto-Finnic pensa.

pensasmustikka (Finnish): highbush blueberry

Definitions

  1. highbush blueberry

Ancestry of “pensasmustikka”, step by step

pensasmustikka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pensas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpensasbush; shrub
2Proto-Finnicpensasbush
3Proto-Finnicpensa—

via Finnish mustikka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmustikkabilberry, "Vaccinium myrtillus"; a common shrub...
2Finnishmustablack; black horse; Elative singular form of...
3Finnish-ntääFront vowel variant of -ntaa
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