Where does “lihapala” come from?

lihapala (Finnish) comes from Finnish pala, from Proto-Finnic pala, from Proto-Uralic pala — bit.

lihapala (Finnish): piece of meat

Definitions

  1. piece of meat

Ancestry of “lihapala”, step by step

lihapala traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pala

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpalapiece, bit; lump, chunk; block
2Proto-Finnicpalabit
3Proto-Uralicpalabit

via Finnish liha

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlihameat; flesh
2Proto-Finniclihameat
3Proto-Finniclišaaddition, increase
Every word from Proto-Uralic pala →Every word from Proto-Finnic pala →Every word from Finnish pala →
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