Where does “ravitsemusletku” come from?

ravitsemusletku (Finnish) comes from Finnish ravitsemus, from Finnish -mus, from Finnish -ma, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

ravitsemusletku (Finnish): feeding tube

Definitions

  1. feeding tube

Ancestry of “ravitsemusletku”, step by step

ravitsemusletku traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish ravitsemus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishravitsemusnutrition
2Finnish-musForms nouns from verbs. Variant of -us used with...
3Finnish-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; The suffix...
4Proto-Finnic-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the...
5Proto-Uralic-ma

via Finnish letku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishletkuA hosepipe, hose
2Russianплёткаwhip
Every word from Proto-Uralic -maEvery word from Proto-Finnic -maEvery word from Finnish -mus