Where does “savukekotelo” come from?

savukekotelo (Finnish) comes from Finnish kotelo, from Finnish -lö, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

savukekotelo (Finnish): cigarette case

Definitions

  1. cigarette case

Ancestry of “savukekotelo”, step by step

savukekotelo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kotelo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkotelopupa; cocoon; case, box, capsule, enclosure
2Finnish-löFront vowel variant of -lo
3Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
4Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
5Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
6Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

via Finnish savuke

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishsavukeA cigarette
2Finnishsavusmoke; a residential building with a chimney, a...
3Proto-Finnicsavu—
4Proto-Finno-Permicsawe—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish -lö →