Where does “ruskeankirjava” come from?

ruskeankirjava (Finnish) comes from Finnish kirjava, from Finnish -va, from Proto-Finnic -pa, from Proto-Uralic -pa.

ruskeankirjava (Finnish): of color, consisting of many shades with brown as...

Definitions

  1. of color, consisting of many shades with brown as...

Ancestry of “ruskeankirjava”, step by step

ruskeankirjava traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kirjava

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkirjavacolorful, colored, mottled, iridescent,...
2Finnish-vaForms the present active participle of a verb,...
3Proto-Finnic-pa-ing; forms the present participle, which is...
4Proto-Uralic-pa—

via Finnish ruskea

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishruskeabrown; A brown color
2Proto-Finnicruskedabrown, red
Every word from Proto-Uralic -pa →Every word from Proto-Finnic -pa →Every word from Finnish -va →