Where does “vuorileppälintu” come from?
vuorileppälintu (Finnish) comes from Finnish Vuori, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.
vuorileppälintu (Finnish): Güldenstädt's redstart, Phoenicurus erythrogastus species of redstart native to high mountains of southwestern and central Eurasia
Definitions
- Güldenstädt's redstart, Phoenicurus erythrogastus species of redstart native to high mountains of southwestern and central Eurasia
Ancestry of “vuorileppälintu”, step by step
vuorileppälintu 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 leppälintu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | leppälintu | common redstart, "Phoenicurus phoenicurus";... |
| 2 | Finnish | leppä | An alder, any of the trees in the genus "Alnus";... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | leppä | alder; blood |
| 4 | Proto-Baltic | léiˀpāˀ | linden tree |