Where does “punavadelma” come from?

punavadelma (Finnish) comes from Finnish vadelma, from Finnish -lma, from Finnish -ella, from Proto-Finnic -eldak, from Proto-Uralic -le-.

punavadelma (Finnish): raspberry

Definitions

  1. raspberry

Ancestry of “punavadelma”, step by step

punavadelma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vadelma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvadelmaraspberry, "Rubus idaeus"
2Finnish-lmaForms nouns, mostly from verbs
3Finnish-ellaForms . The resulting verb often describes a more...
4Proto-Finnic-eldakForms frequentative verbs
5Proto-Uralic-le-—

via Finnish puna

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishpunaThe color red
2Proto-Finnicpunared
3Proto-Finno-Ugricpunacolor, hair
Every word from Proto-Uralic -le- →Every word from Finnish -lma →Every word from Finnish -ella →