Where does “katutappelu” come from?

katutappelu (Finnish) comes from Finnish tappelu, from Finnish tapella, from Finnish -ella, from Proto-Finnic -eldak, from Proto-Uralic -le-.

katutappelu (Finnish): street fight, streetfight

Definitions

  1. street fight, streetfight

Ancestry of “katutappelu”, step by step

katutappelu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tappelu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtappelufight, altercation, wrangle
2Finnishtapellato fight, brawl; to quarrel, squabble
3Finnish-ellaForms . The resulting verb often describes a more...
4Proto-Finnic-eldakForms frequentative verbs
5Proto-Uralic-le-—

via Finnish katu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkatustreet
2Old Swedishgatastreet, road
3Old Norsegátariddle
4Proto-Germanicgatwǭstreet, passage
5Proto-Indo-Europeangʰodweh₂—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -le- →Every word from Finnish -ella →Every word from Finnish tapella →