Where does “koivuhapero” come from?

koivuhapero (Finnish) comes from Finnish hapero, from Finnish hapera, from Finnish haprea, from Finnish hauras, from Proto-Finnic hapras — brittle, fragile, weak.

koivuhapero (Finnish): grass-green russula

Definitions

  1. grass-green russula

Ancestry of “koivuhapero”, step by step

koivuhapero traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish hapero

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhaperobrittlegill, russula; brittle
2Finnishhaperabrittle
3Finnishhaprea—
4Finnishhaurasbrittle, fragile, frail, friable, crumbly,...
5Proto-Finnichaprasbrittle, fragile, weak

via Finnish Koivu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishKoivubirch deciduous tree of the genus
2Finnishkoivubirch
3Proto-Finnickoivubirch
4Proto-Uralickojwabirch
Every word from Proto-Finnic hapras →Every word from Finnish hauras →Every word from Finnish haprea →