Where does “hylkypuu” come from?

hylkypuu (Finnish) comes from Finnish puu, from Proto-Finnic puu, from Proto-Uralic puwe — tree, wood.

hylkypuu (Finnish): cull wood, cull lumber

Definitions

  1. cull wood, cull lumber

Ancestry of “hylkypuu”, step by step

hylkypuu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpuutree; wood
2Proto-Finnicpuutree
3Proto-Uralicpuwetree, wood

via Finnish hylky

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhylkyderelict; shipwreck; reject
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
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