Where does “poskiontelo” come from?

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

poskiontelo (Finnish): maxillary sinus

Definitions

  1. maxillary sinus

Ancestry of “poskiontelo”, step by step

poskiontelo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish ontelo

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-sForms nouns
6Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

via Finnish poski

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishposkicheek
2Proto-Finnicposkicheek
3Proto-Uralicposkecheek

Words derived from “poskiontelo”

Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish -lö →