Where does “vajaaravitsemus” come from?

vajaaravitsemus (Finnish) comes from Finnish ravitsemus, from Finnish -mus, from Finnish -ma, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

vajaaravitsemus (Finnish): malnutrition, undernourishment

Definitions

  1. malnutrition, undernourishment

Ancestry of “vajaaravitsemus”, step by step

vajaaravitsemus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish ravitsemus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishravitsemusnutrition
2Finnish-musForms nouns from verbs. Variant of -us used with...
3Finnish-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; The suffix...
4Proto-Finnic-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the...
5Proto-Uralic-ma—

via Finnish vajaa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvajaanot full; partial, incomplete; shy; mentally...
2Proto-Finnicvajaganecessary, needed
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ma →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ma →Every word from Finnish -mus →