Where does “patruunapesä” come from?

patruunapesä (Finnish) comes from Finnish pesä, from Proto-Finnic pesä, from Proto-Uralic pesä — nest.

patruunapesä (Finnish): chamber part of a firearm holding the round before firing

Definitions

  1. chamber part of a firearm holding the round before firing

Ancestry of “patruunapesä”, step by step

patruunapesä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pesä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpesänest; den; hive
2Proto-Finnicpesänest
3Proto-Uralicpesänest

via Finnish patruuna

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpatruunacartridge, when used in sense concerning...
2Swedishpatroncartridge for a fire arm
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