diff --git oak-core/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/query/ast/FullTextSearchImpl.java oak-core/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/query/ast/FullTextSearchImpl.java
index c3d66ab..47af8c1 100644
--- oak-core/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/query/ast/FullTextSearchImpl.java
+++ oak-core/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/query/ast/FullTextSearchImpl.java
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ public class FullTextSearchImpl extends ConstraintImpl {
             if (f.getSelector().equals(selector)) {
                 String p = propertyName;
                 if (relativePath != null) {
-                    p = PathUtils.concat(p, relativePath);
+                    p = PathUtils.concat(relativePath, p);
                 }                
                 p = normalizePropertyName(p);
                 restrictPropertyOnFilter(p, f);
diff --git oak-core/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/query/FilterTest.java oak-core/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/query/FilterTest.java
index f562a5a..a039e6d 100644
--- oak-core/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/query/FilterTest.java
+++ oak-core/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/query/FilterTest.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import static org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.nodetype.NodeTypeConstants.JCR_N
 import static org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.nodetype.write.InitialContent.INITIAL_CONTENT;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
 
 import java.text.ParseException;
 
@@ -85,4 +86,13 @@ public class FilterTest {
         assertEquals("[is not null]", f.getPropertyRestrictions("c").toString());
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void fulltext() throws Exception{
+        Filter f = createFilterSQL("select * from [nt:unstructured] where CONTAINS([jcr:content/metadata/comment], 'december')");
+        for (Filter.PropertyRestriction pr : f.getPropertyRestrictions()){
+            System.out.println(pr.propertyName);
+        }
+        assertNotNull(f.getPropertyRestriction("jcr:content/metadata/comment"));
+    }
+
 }