Where does “kiinansipuli” come from?

kiinansipuli (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...

kiinansipuli (Finnish): garlic chive, Allium tuberosum relative of onion, the garlic-flavoured leaves of which used as a vegetable in cooking

Definitions

  1. garlic chive, Allium tuberosum relative of onion, the garlic-flavoured leaves of which used as a vegetable in cooking

Ancestry of “kiinansipuli”, step by step

kiinansipuli 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 Kiina

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishKiinaChina; of China; Chinese
2SwedishKinaChina
3Chinese
Every word from Latin -ulus