Where does “valkohäntägueretsa” come from?

valkohäntägueretsa (Finnish) comes from Finnish häntä, from Proto-Finnic häntä, from Proto-Uralic čänčä.

valkohäntägueretsa (Finnish): king colobus, western black-and-white colobus,...

Definitions

  1. king colobus, western black-and-white colobus,...

Ancestry of “valkohäntägueretsa”, step by step

valkohäntägueretsa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish häntä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhäntäa narrow tail; ogonek; Partitive form of hän
2Proto-Finnichäntätail
3Proto-Uralicčänčä—

via Finnish gueretsa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishgueretsaA colobus; A guereza, Colobus guereza
2EnglishguerezaA reddish-brown colobus monkey from Abyssinia
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