Where does “maaporoda” come from?
maaporoda (Ingrian) comes from Ingrian maa, from Proto-Finnic maa, from Proto-Uralic mëxe, from Proto-Indo-European meǵh₂s — great.
maaporoda (Ingrian): type of soil
Ancestry of “maaporoda”, step by step
maaporoda traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Ingrian maa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ingrian | maa | earth; soil; land |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | maa | earth, ground, soil; land, country |
| 3 | Proto-Uralic | mëxe | earth, land |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | meǵh₂s | great |
via Ingrian poroda
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ingrian | poroda | species, sort |
| 2 | Russian | поро́да | breed, kind, race, species, sort (all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies) |