Where does “vadelmapensaikko” come from?
vadelmapensaikko (Finnish) comes from Finnish vadelma, from Finnish -lma, from Finnish -ella, from Proto-Finnic -eldak, from Proto-Uralic -le-.
vadelmapensaikko (Finnish): raspberry bush
Ancestry of “vadelmapensaikko”, step by step
vadelmapensaikko traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish vadelma
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vadelma | raspberry, "Rubus idaeus" |
| 2 | Finnish | -lma | Forms nouns, mostly from verbs |
| 3 | Finnish | -ella | Forms . The resulting verb often describes a more... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -eldak | Forms frequentative verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -le- | — |
via Finnish pensaikko
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pensaikko | shrubbery; scrub, brush |
| 2 | Finnish | pensas | bush; shrub |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | pensas | bush |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | pensa | — |