Where does “vadelmikko” come from?
vadelmikko (Finnish) comes from Finnish vadelma, from Finnish -lma, from Finnish -ella, from Proto-Finnic -eldak, from Proto-Uralic -le-.
vadelmikko (Finnish): raspberry thicket
Ancestry of “vadelmikko”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 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- | — |