Where does “suunnikaslihas” come from?

suunnikaslihas (Finnish) comes from Finnish lihas, from Finnish -s, from Proto-Finnic -nci, from Proto-Uralic -mte.

suunnikaslihas (Finnish): rhomboid muscle, rhomboid

Definitions

  1. rhomboid muscle, rhomboid

Ancestry of “suunnikaslihas”, step by step

suunnikaslihas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lihas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlihasmuscle
2Finnish-sForms ordinal numbers from cardinal numbers, or...
3Proto-Finnic-nciForms ordinal numbers from the corresponding...
4Proto-Uralic-mte—

via Finnish suunnikas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsuunnikasparallelogram
2Lithuanian-ikas—
3Proto-Indo-European-iḱos-y, -ic
Every word from Proto-Uralic -mte →Every word from Finnish -s →Every word from Proto-Finnic -nci →