Where does “vuorigaselli” come from?

vuorigaselli (Finnish) comes from Finnish gaselli, from French gazelle, from Spanish gacela, from Spanish gacel, from Arabic غَزَال.

vuorigaselli (Finnish): mountain gazelle, true gazelle, Palestine mountain gazelle, Gazella gazella

Definitions

  1. mountain gazelle, true gazelle, Palestine mountain gazelle, Gazella gazella

Ancestry of “vuorigaselli”, step by step

vuorigaselli traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish gaselli

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishgaselligazelle
2Frenchgazellegazelle
3Spanishgacelagazelle
4Spanishgacelmale gazelle
5Arabicغَزَال—

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—
Every word from Arabic غَزَال →Every word from Spanish gacel →Every word from Spanish gacela →