Where does “pylväsmuuntamo” come from?

pylväsmuuntamo (Finnish) comes from Finnish muuntamo, from Finnish muuntaa, from Finnish muu, from Proto-Finnic muu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric mu.

pylväsmuuntamo (Finnish): pole-mounted transformer, pole-mount transformer

Definitions

  1. pole-mounted transformer, pole-mount transformer

Ancestry of “pylväsmuuntamo”, step by step

pylväsmuuntamo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish muuntamo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmuuntamotransformer station or substation
2Finnishmuuntaato convert, transform; Third-person singular...
3Finnishmuuother, another; the others; else
4Proto-Finnicmuuother, another; different
5Proto-Finno-Ugricmu—

via Finnish pylväs

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpylväscolumn; a free-standing column or pillar; bar
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric mu →Every word from Proto-Finnic muu →Every word from Finnish muu →