Where does “vuorikirvinen” come from?

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

vuorikirvinen (Finnish): water pipit, Anthus spinoletta small Eurasian passerine bird

Definitions

  1. water pipit, Anthus spinoletta small Eurasian passerine bird

Ancestry of “vuorikirvinen”, step by step

vuorikirvinen 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 kirvinen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkirvinenpipit
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish Vuori →