Where does “hopeasipuli” come from?

hopeasipuli (Finnish) comes from Finnish sipuli, from Old Swedish sipul, from Middle Low German sipolle, from Latin cēpulla, from Latin -ulus — Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...

hopeasipuli (Finnish): white onion, silverskin onion

Definitions

  1. white onion, silverskin onion

Ancestry of “hopeasipuli”, step by step

hopeasipuli traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sipuli

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsipulionion, "Allium cepa"; onion; onion, Allium
2Old Swedishsipulred onion
3Middle Low Germansipolle
4Latincēpullaonion-bed, onion-field
5Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...

via Finnish hopea

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhopeasilver
2Proto-Finnichopedasilver; soft
3Proto-Germanicsamftijaz
Every word from Latin -ulus
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