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Where does “rohtokoirankieli” come from?

rohtokoirankieli (Finnish) comes from Finnish koirankieli, from Finnish kieli, from Finnish kielitiede, from Finnish tiede, from Finnish tietää, from Finnish -mätön, from Proto-Finnic -mat'oin, from Proto-Finnic -t'oin.

rohtokoirankieli (Finnish): hound's tongue, "Cynoglossum officinale"

Definitions

  1. hound's tongue, "Cynoglossum officinale"

Ancestry of “rohtokoirankieli”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkoirankielihound's tongue, dog's tongue, gypsy flower,...
2Finnishkielitongue; language; string
3Finnishkielitiedelinguistics
4Finnishtiedescience; one of the liberal arts or humanities
5Finnishtietääto know, be aware of; to signify, mean, presage,...
6Finnish-mätönFront vowel variant of -maton
7Proto-Finnic-mat'oin—
8Proto-Finnic-t'oin-less
9Proto-Uralic-ktama—
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