Where does “pulkkamäki” come from?

pulkkamäki (Finnish) comes from Finnish Mäki, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

pulkkamäki (Finnish): toboggan slide, toboggan run, sled hill

Definitions

  1. toboggan slide, toboggan run, sled hill

Ancestry of “pulkkamäki”, step by step

pulkkamäki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Mäki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishMäkiAny of a number of small places in Finland
2Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
3Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
4Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
5Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

via Finnish pulkka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpulkkatoboggan; tally, tally stick
2Proto-Samicpulkkēpulk
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish Mäki →