Where does “vuorenpeikko” come from?
vuorenpeikko (Finnish) comes from Finnish Vuori, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.
vuorenpeikko (Finnish): mountain troll
Ancestry of “vuorenpeikko”, step by step
vuorenpeikko 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 peikko
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | peikko | goblin, hobgoblin, gnome, gremlin; troll;... |
| 2 | Finnish | peikkoi | — |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | faihaz | coloured, decorated; hostile, criminal |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | póyḱos | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | peyḱ- | to hew, cut out; to stitch, embroider, sting; to... |