Where does “salmensuu” come from?

salmensuu (Finnish) comes from Finnish Salmi, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

salmensuu (Finnish): mouth of a strait or sound

Definitions

  1. mouth of a strait or sound

Ancestry of “salmensuu”, step by step

salmensuu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Salmi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishSalmiA town in Russian Karelia
2Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
3Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
4Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
5Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

via Finnish suu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsuumouth
2Proto-Finnicsüüthread, fibre; annual ring; reason, cause
3Proto-Uralicśuwemouth
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish -as →