Where does “vuorikiipeily” come from?

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

vuorikiipeily (Finnish): mountain climbing, mountaineering

Definitions

  1. mountain climbing, mountaineering

Ancestry of “vuorikiipeily”, step by step

vuorikiipeily 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 kiipeily

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkiipeilyclimbing
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -sEvery word from Finnish -läEvery word from Finnish Vuori