Where does “ruokatottumus” come from?

ruokatottumus (Finnish) comes from Finnish tottumus, from Finnish -mus, from Finnish -ma, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

ruokatottumus (Finnish): eating habit, dietary habit

Definitions

  1. eating habit, dietary habit

Ancestry of “ruokatottumus”, step by step

ruokatottumus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tottumus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtottumushabit, custom, routine
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 ruoka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishruokafood; meal
2Proto-Finnicrookafood; meal
3Proto-Germanicrōkōcare, attention
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ma →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ma →Every word from Finnish -mus →