Where does “tattarisuurimo” come from?

tattarisuurimo (Finnish) comes from Finnish suurimo, from Proto-Finnic suurima — groat.

tattarisuurimo (Finnish): buckwheat groat(s)

Definitions

  1. buckwheat groat(s)

Ancestry of “tattarisuurimo”, step by step

tattarisuurimo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish suurimo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsuurimoan individual grain of groats
2Proto-Finnicsuurimagroat

via Finnish tattari

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtattaribuckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum plant
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