Where does “viljatatar” come from?

viljatatar (Finnish) comes from Finnish Vilja, from Proto-Finnic vilja — grain, cereal; abundance, plenty.

viljatatar (Finnish): buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum plant

Definitions

  1. buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum plant

Ancestry of “viljatatar”, step by step

viljatatar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Vilja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishViljagrain, cereal, corn type of grass cultivated for its edible grains
2Proto-Finnicviljagrain, cereal; abundance, plenty

via Finnish tatar

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtatarplant of the family Polygonaceae
2Finnishtattaribuckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum plant
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