Where does “pettujauho” come from?

pettujauho (Finnish) comes from Finnish pettu, from Finnish petäjä, from Proto-Finnic petägä, from Proto-Uralic pečä — pine.

pettujauho (Finnish): phloem flour or flour with pine phloem

Definitions

  1. phloem flour or flour with pine phloem

Ancestry of “pettujauho”, step by step

pettujauho traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pettu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpettuphloem of a pine
2Finnishpetäjäpine; a large, lone pine tree
3Proto-Finnicpetägäpine
4Proto-Uralicpečäpine

via Finnish jauho

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishjauhoflour
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*jauho—
Every word from Proto-Uralic pečä →Every word from Proto-Finnic petägä →Every word from Finnish petäjä →