Where does “namupala” come from?

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

namupala (Finnish): tidbit, treat tasty morsel of food

Definitions

  1. tidbit, treat tasty morsel of food

Ancestry of “namupala”, step by step

namupala traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pala

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

via Finnish namu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnamusweet, candy
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
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