Where does “peltipala” come from?

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

peltipala (Finnish): piece of sheet metal

Definitions

  1. piece of sheet metal

Ancestry of “peltipala”, step by step

peltipala traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pala

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

via Finnish pelti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpeltisheet metal; plate; sheet
2Swedishspälta (long and narrow) gap
Every word from Proto-Uralic pala →Every word from Proto-Finnic pala →Every word from Finnish pala →