Where does “ravintohiiva” come from?

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

ravintohiiva (Finnish): nutritional yeast

Definitions

  1. nutritional yeast

Ancestry of “ravintohiiva”, step by step

ravintohiiva traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish ravinto

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

via Finnish hiiva

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhiivayeast
2Proto-Finnichiivayeast
Every word from Proto-Uralic -j →Every word from Finnish -i →Every word from Finnish -ntö →