Where does “saimaannieriä” come from?

saimaannieriä (Finnish) comes from Finnish Saimaa — The largest lake of Finland, and fourth in Europe.

saimaannieriä (Finnish): An Arctic char of an isolated population that lives in the lake Saimaa and its drainage basin

Definitions

  1. An Arctic char of an isolated population that lives in the lake Saimaa and its drainage basin

Ancestry of “saimaannieriä”, step by step

saimaannieriä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Saimaa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishSaimaaThe largest lake of Finland, and fourth in Europe

via Finnish nieriä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishnieriäArctic char
Every word from Finnish Saimaa