Where does “ravintolasali” come from?

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

ravintolasali (Finnish): restaurant hall, dining hall

Definitions

  1. restaurant hall, dining hall

Ancestry of “ravintolasali”, step by step

ravintolasali 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 sali

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsalihall; A large room, often one in which dinners...
2Swedishsäla seal
3Old Norseselrseal; second-person singular present indicative...
4Proto-Germanicselhazseal
5Proto-Indo-Europeanselk-to pull, drag; to drag, to furrow; to pull, draw
Every word from Proto-Uralic -j →Every word from Finnish -i →Every word from Finnish -ntö →