Where does “rintamaito” come from?

rintamaito (Finnish) comes from Finnish maito, from Proto-Finnic maito, from Proto-Uralic majδ̕ɜ.

rintamaito (Finnish): breast milk

Definitions

  1. breast milk

Ancestry of “rintamaito”, step by step

rintamaito traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish maito

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmaitomilk; milk, non-dairy milk, plant milk
2Proto-Finnicmaitomilk
3Proto-Uralicmajδ̕ɜ—

via Finnish rinta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrintabreast; chest, especially the front side of it
2Finnish-mäFront vowel variant of -ma

via Ingrian rinta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ingrianrintabreast
Every word from Proto-Uralic majδ̕ɜ →Every word from Proto-Finnic maito →Every word from Finnish maito →