Where does “mittapala” come from?

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

mittapala (Finnish): gauge block

Definitions

  1. gauge block

Ancestry of “mittapala”, step by step

mittapala traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pala

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

via Finnish mitta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmittameasure; length, measure
2Proto-Finnicmittameasure
Every word from Proto-Uralic pala →Every word from Proto-Finnic pala →Every word from Finnish pala →