Where does “tunturiretkeily” come from?

tunturiretkeily (Finnish) comes from Finnish retkeily, from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u — Forms nouns from adjectives, nouns.

tunturiretkeily (Finnish): hiking in a region with fells

Definitions

  1. hiking in a region with fells

Ancestry of “tunturiretkeily”, step by step

tunturiretkeily traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish retkeily

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishretkeilyhiking
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns

via Finnish tunturi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishtunturiA fell
2Proto-Samictuontërfell
Every word from Proto-Finnic -u →Every word from Finnish -u →Every word from Finnish retkeily →