Where does “vuorivesirotta” come from?

vuorivesirotta (Finnish) comes from Finnish vesirotta, from Finnish rotta, from Old Swedish rotta, from Middle Low German rotte, from Proto-Germanic rattaz, from Proto-Indo-European Hreh₃d- — to scrape.

vuorivesirotta (Finnish): mountain water rat, Baiyankamys habbema semiaquatic rodent found in Papua and Indonesia

Definitions

  1. mountain water rat, Baiyankamys habbema semiaquatic rodent found in Papua and Indonesia

Ancestry of “vuorivesirotta”, step by step

vuorivesirotta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vesirotta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvesirottawater rat rat of the genus
2Finnishrottarat; unemployed person living on welfare
3Old Swedishrotta—
4Middle Low Germanrotte—
5Proto-Germanicrattazrat
6Proto-Indo-EuropeanHreh₃d-to scrape

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 Proto-Indo-European Hreh₃d- →Every word from Proto-Germanic rattaz →Every word from Middle Low German rotte →