Where does “hopeapensas” come from?

hopeapensas (Finnish) comes from Finnish pensas, from Proto-Finnic pensas, from Proto-Finnic pensa.

hopeapensas (Finnish): American silverberry

Definitions

  1. American silverberry

Ancestry of “hopeapensas”, step by step

hopeapensas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pensas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpensasbush; shrub
2Proto-Finnicpensasbush
3Proto-Finnicpensa—

via Finnish hopea

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhopeasilver
2Proto-Finnichopedasilver; soft
3Proto-Germanicsamftijaz—
Every word from Proto-Finnic pensa →Every word from Proto-Finnic pensas →Every word from Finnish pensas →