Where does “melon” come from?

melon (Finnish) comes from Finnish meloa, from Finnish mela, from Proto-Finnic mela, from Proto-Finno-Permic melä.

melon (Finnish): First-person singular indicative present form of...

Definitions

  1. First-person singular indicative present form of...

Ancestry of “melon”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmeloato paddle to propel something with a paddle
2Finnishmelapaddle; dick
3Proto-Finnicmelapaddle
4Proto-Finno-Permicmelä—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Permic melä →Every word from Proto-Finnic mela →Every word from Finnish mela →