Where does “ternimaito” come from?

ternimaito (Finnish) comes from Finnish maito, from Proto-Finnic maito, from Proto-Uralic majδ̕ɜ.

ternimaito (Finnish): colostrum, beestings, first milk

Definitions

  1. colostrum, beestings, first milk

Ancestry of “ternimaito”, step by step

ternimaito traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish maito

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmaitomilk; milk, non-dairy milk, plant milk
2Proto-Finnicmaitomilk
3Proto-Uralicmajδ̕ɜ—

via Finnish terni

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishterni—
Every word from Proto-Uralic majδ̕ɜ →Every word from Proto-Finnic maito →Every word from Finnish maito →