Where does “haarukkapala” come from?

haarukkapala (Finnish) comes from Finnish pala, from Proto-Finnic pala, from Proto-Uralic pala — bit.

haarukkapala (Finnish): fork-size piece

Definitions

  1. fork-size piece

Ancestry of “haarukkapala”, step by step

haarukkapala traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pala

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpalapiece, bit; lump, chunk; block
2Proto-Finnicpalabit
3Proto-Uralicpalabit

via Finnish haarukka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhaarukkafork; range, bracket; Short for etuhaarukka
2Finnishhaarabranch; fork, bifurcation; offshoot
3Proto-Finnichaarabranch
Every word from Proto-Uralic pala →Every word from Proto-Finnic pala →Every word from Finnish pala →