Where does “voivuori” come from?
voivuori (Finnish) comes from Finnish Vuori, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.
voivuori (Finnish): butter mountain
Ancestry of “voivuori”, step by step
voivuori traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish Vuori
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Vuori | mountain large mass of earth and rock |
| 2 | Finnish | -lä | Front vowel variant of -la |
| 3 | Finnish | -as | Forms some adjectives; Forms some nouns |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -s | Forms nouns |
| 5 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | -s | — |
via Finnish voi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | voi | butter; oh; third-person singular indicative... |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | voi | butter; oh, woe |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | waje | fat |