Where does “yläköysikiipeily” come from?

yläköysikiipeily (Finnish) comes from Finnish yläköysi, from Finnish ylä-, from Finnish alhaalla, from Finnish ala-, from Proto-Finnic ala, from Proto-Uralic ëla — below.

yläköysikiipeily (Finnish): top rope climbing

Definitions

  1. top rope climbing

Ancestry of “yläköysikiipeily”, step by step

yläköysikiipeily traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish yläköysi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishyläköysitop rope
2Finnishylä-upper; superior, high, higher
3Finnishalhaalladown below, below; down (here/there)
4Finnishala-under-, sub-, lower, nether; inferior
5Proto-Finnicalalower; under
6Proto-Uralicëlabelow

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-Uralic ëla →Every word from Finnish ala- →Every word from Proto-Finnic ala →