Where does “nippuvasara” come from?

nippuvasara (Finnish) comes from Finnish vasara, from Finnish -inen, from Finnish -uus, from Proto-Finnic -uc — -ness, -hood.

nippuvasara (Finnish): a medium-sized powered hammer, smaller than a kankivasara (but larger than naulavasara), used for finer forging, e.g. of iron into small bars of wrought iron

Definitions

  1. a medium-sized powered hammer, smaller than a kankivasara (but larger than naulavasara), used for finer forging, e.g. of iron into small bars of wrought iron

Ancestry of “nippuvasara”, step by step

nippuvasara traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vasara

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvasarahammer; malleus, hammer
2Finnish-inen-like, -ous, -y; -en; Creates adjectives from...
3Finnish-uusForms nouns from adjectives, expressing a quality
4Proto-Finnic-uc-ness, -hood

via Finnish nippu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnippubundle, bunch
2Swedishknippabunch
3Swedishknippebunch, bundle
Every word from Proto-Finnic -uc →