Where does “kevätsipuli” come from?

kevätsipuli (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...

kevätsipuli (Finnish): Any variety of onion the leaves of which are consumed early in the summer as vegetable. This includes scallion, spring onion which does not develop a bulb, and young shoots of common onion (Allium cepa), tree onion (Allium x proliferum) and others

Definitions

  1. Any variety of onion the leaves of which are consumed early in the summer as vegetable. This includes scallion, spring onion which does not develop a bulb, and young shoots of common onion (Allium cepa), tree onion (Allium x proliferum) and others

Ancestry of “kevätsipuli”, step by step

kevätsipuli 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 kevät

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkevätspring, springtime
2Proto-Finnickevätspring
3Proto-Uralickeŋäspring
Every word from Latin -ulus