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Where does “kukkotappelu” come from?

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

kukkotappelu (Finnish): cockfight; cockfighting

Definitions

  1. cockfight; cockfighting

Ancestry of “kukkotappelu”, step by step

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-—
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