Where does “vuorenseinämä” come from?

vuorenseinämä (Finnish) comes from Finnish Vuori, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

vuorenseinämä (Finnish): mountain cliff wall, mountain wall, cliff wall

Definitions

  1. mountain cliff wall, mountain wall, cliff wall

Ancestry of “vuorenseinämä”, step by step

vuorenseinämä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Vuori

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishVuorimountain large mass of earth and rock
2Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
3Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
4Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
5Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

via Finnish seinämä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishseinämäwall
2FinnishmäI
3FinnishminäI; ego; self
4Proto-FinnicminäI, me
5Uralic*minä—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish Vuori →