Where does “ravintolalaulaja” come from?

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

ravintolalaulaja (Finnish): restaurant singer

Definitions

  1. restaurant singer

Ancestry of “ravintolalaulaja”, step by step

ravintolalaulaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish ravintola

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishravintolarestaurant
2Finnishravintonutrition, nourishment, nutriment; nutritional
3Finnish-ntö—
4Finnish-möFront vowel variant of -mo
5Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
6Proto-Uralic-joblique plural

via Finnish laulaja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlaulajasinger
2Finnish-ja-er
3Proto-Finnic-jaForms agent nouns from verbs
4Proto-Uralic-jaForms the present participle
Every word from Proto-Uralic -j →Every word from Finnish -i →Every word from Finnish -ntö →