Where does “kranaattituli” come from?

kranaattituli (Finnish) comes from Finnish tuli, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *tuli, from Proto-Uralic tule — fire.

kranaattituli (Finnish): grenade fire

Definitions

  1. grenade fire

Ancestry of “kranaattituli”, step by step

kranaattituli traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tuli

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtulifire; campfire; Third-person singular indicative...
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*tuli
3Proto-Uralictulefire

via Finnish kranaatti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkranaattigrenade, hand grenade; shell
2Swedishgranata pomegranate; a garnet, a group of minerals with...
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