Where does “rintamasotilas” come from?

rintamasotilas (Finnish) comes from Finnish sotilas, from Finnish -las, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

rintamasotilas (Finnish): battlefront soldier

Definitions

  1. battlefront soldier

Ancestry of “rintamasotilas”, step by step

rintamasotilas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sotilas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsotilassoldier; pawn; jack, knave
2Finnish-lasForms nouns used to describe people; Forms...
3Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
4Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
5Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
6Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

via Finnish rintama

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrintamafront, battlefront; front; theater
2Finnishrintabreast; chest, especially the front side of it
3Finnish-mäFront vowel variant of -ma

Words derived from “rintamasotilas”

Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish -las →