Where does “vadelmarahka” come from?

vadelmarahka (Finnish) comes from Finnish vadelma, from Finnish -lma, from Finnish -ella, from Proto-Finnic -eldak, from Proto-Uralic -le-.

vadelmarahka (Finnish): raspberry quark

Definitions

  1. raspberry quark

Ancestry of “vadelmarahka”, step by step

vadelmarahka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vadelma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvadelmaraspberry, "Rubus idaeus"
2Finnish-lmaForms nouns, mostly from verbs
3Finnish-ellaForms . The resulting verb often describes a more...
4Proto-Finnic-eldakForms frequentative verbs
5Proto-Uralic-le-—

via Finnish rahka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrahkaquark; curd
2Proto-Finnicrahkaquark (soft creamy cheese)
Every word from Proto-Uralic -le- →Every word from Finnish -lma →Every word from Finnish -ella →