Where does “vaeltajakotilo” come from?

vaeltajakotilo (Finnish) comes from Finnish vaeltaja, from Finnish jä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ja, from Proto-Germanic jahw, from Proto-Germanic -hw, from Proto-Germanic -hwe, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.

vaeltajakotilo (Finnish): New Zealand mud snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum species of very small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum native to New Zealand, spread to many other countries where it is often considered an invasive species

Definitions

  1. New Zealand mud snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum species of very small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum native to New Zealand, spread to many other countries where it is often considered an invasive species

Ancestry of “vaeltajakotilo”, step by step

vaeltajakotilo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vaeltaja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvaeltajawanderer
2Finnishjäice
3Proto-Finno-Ugric*ja—
4Proto-Germanicjahwand, also
5Proto-Germanic-hwand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
6Proto-Germanic-hwe—
7Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives

via Finnish kotilo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkotilogastropod, mollusc, seashell, snail; the shell of...
2Finnish-löFront vowel variant of -lo
3Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
4Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
5Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
6Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe →Every word from Proto-Germanic -hw →Every word from Proto-Germanic jahw →