Where does “pikkuravintola” come from?

pikkuravintola (Finnish) comes from Finnish ravintola, from Finnish ravinto, from Finnish -ntö, from Finnish -mö, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.

pikkuravintola (Finnish): small restaurant

Definitions

  1. small restaurant

Ancestry of “pikkuravintola”, step by step

pikkuravintola traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish ravintola

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishravintolarestaurant
2Finnishravintonutrition, nourishment, nutriment; nutritional
3Finnish-ntö
4Finnish-möFront vowel variant of -mo
5Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
6Proto-Uralic-joblique plural

via Finnish pikku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpikkulittle, small; little old
2Finnishpienilittle, small; Third-person singular indicative...
3Proto-Finnicpeenilittle, small; fine
Every word from Proto-Uralic -j
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