Where does “tunturipeura” come from?

tunturipeura (Finnish) comes from Finnish peura, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *pëtra.

tunturipeura (Finnish): A wild mountain reindeer, Rangifer tarandus...

Definitions

  1. A wild mountain reindeer, Rangifer tarandus...

Ancestry of “tunturipeura”, step by step

tunturipeura traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish peura

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpeuraa reindeer or a caribou, a general term used to...
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*pëtra—

via Finnish tunturi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishtunturiA fell
2Proto-Samictuontërfell
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric *pëtra →Every word from Finnish peura →