Where does “vuoritiltaltti” come from?

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

vuoritiltaltti (Finnish): mountain chiffchaff, eastern chiffchaff, Phylloscopus sindianus species of chiffchaff found in Caucasus and Himalayas

Definitions

  1. mountain chiffchaff, eastern chiffchaff, Phylloscopus sindianus species of chiffchaff found in Caucasus and Himalayas

Ancestry of “vuoritiltaltti”, step by step

vuoritiltaltti 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 tiltaltti

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