Where does “haarapolymeeri” come from?

haarapolymeeri (Finnish) comes from Finnish haara, from Proto-Finnic haara — branch.

haarapolymeeri (Finnish): branched polymer

Definitions

  1. branched polymer

Ancestry of “haarapolymeeri”, step by step

haarapolymeeri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish haara

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhaarabranch; fork, bifurcation; offshoot
2Proto-Finnichaarabranch

via Finnish polymeeri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpolymeeripolymer
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