Where does “pilajuttu” come from?

pilajuttu (Finnish) comes from Finnish pila, from Old Swedish spil, from Middle Low German spil, from Old Saxon spil, from Proto-West Germanic spil — dance; game, exercise.

pilajuttu (Finnish): wisecrack, crack, joke

Definitions

  1. wisecrack, crack, joke

Ancestry of “pilajuttu”, step by step

pilajuttu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pila

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpilajoke, jest; practical joke, jest
2Old Swedishspil—
3Middle Low Germanspilnoun
4Old Saxonspil—
5Proto-West Germanicspildance; game, exercise

via Finnish juttu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishjuttutalk; tale; anecdote
2Proto-Finnicjuttutalk
3Proto-Finno-Ugricjukta-to tell
Every word from Proto-West Germanic spil →Every word from Old Saxon spil →Every word from Middle Low German spil →