Where does “päätehakkuu” come from?

päätehakkuu (Finnish) comes from Finnish pääte, from Finnish päättää, from Finnish pää, from Proto-Finnic pää, from Proto-Uralic päŋe — head.

päätehakkuu (Finnish): final felling, final cutting In periodic cover silviculture the last phase of the forest regeneration cycle consisting of some variant of clearcutting. After final cutting the cycle starts anew from planting new trees followed by one or more thinnings before the next final cutting when the trees hav

Definitions

  1. final felling, final cutting In periodic cover silviculture the last phase of the forest regeneration cycle consisting of some variant of clearcutting. After final cutting the cycle starts anew from planting new trees followed by one or more thinnings before the next final cutting when the trees hav

Ancestry of “päätehakkuu”, step by step

päätehakkuu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pääte

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpääteend, ending; final, terminal, end; terminal
2Finnishpäättääto end, conclude, terminate, finish, bring to a close
3Finnishpäähead; end, tip
4Proto-Finnicpäähead
5Proto-Uralicpäŋehead

via Finnish hakkuu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhakkuulogging
2FinnishuuThe name of the Latin-script letter U; hole, nest
3LatinU—
4LatinVve
5Etruscan?u
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