Where does “valkoposkimangabi” come from?

valkoposkimangabi (Finnish) comes from Finnish poski, from Proto-Finnic poski, from Proto-Uralic poske — cheek.

valkoposkimangabi (Finnish): grey-cheeked mangabey, white-cheeked mangabey, Lophocebus albigena

Definitions

  1. grey-cheeked mangabey, white-cheeked mangabey, Lophocebus albigena

Ancestry of “valkoposkimangabi”, step by step

valkoposkimangabi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish poski

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishposkicheek
2Proto-Finnicposkicheek
3Proto-Uralicposkecheek

via Finnish mangabi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmangabimangabey Old World monkey of the genera
2EnglishmangabeyAny of several large, arboreal monkeys of the...
3EnglishMangaby—
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