Where does “viitahapero” come from?

viitahapero (Finnish) comes from Finnish hapero, from Finnish hapera, from Finnish haprea, from Finnish hauras, from Proto-Finnic hapras — brittle, fragile, weak.

viitahapero (Finnish): A brittlegill, "Russula gracillima"

Definitions

  1. A brittlegill, "Russula gracillima"

Ancestry of “viitahapero”, step by step

viitahapero traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish hapero

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhaperobrittlegill, russula; brittle
2Finnishhaperabrittle
3Finnishhaprea—
4Finnishhaurasbrittle, fragile, frail, friable, crumbly,...
5Proto-Finnichaprasbrittle, fragile, weak

via Finnish viita

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishviitaA thicket of young deciduous trees
2Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
3Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
4Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
5Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—
Every word from Proto-Finnic hapras →Every word from Finnish hauras →Every word from Finnish haprea →