Where does “polttoainepumppu” come from?

polttoainepumppu (Finnish) comes from Finnish polttoaine, from Finnish poltto, from Finnish polttaa, from Proto-Finnic polttadak, from Proto-Finnic paladak, from Proto-Uralic pala- — to devour, eat.

polttoainepumppu (Finnish): fuel pump

Definitions

  1. fuel pump

Ancestry of “polttoainepumppu”, step by step

polttoainepumppu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish polttoaine

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpolttoainefuel
2Finnishpolttoburn, burning; burn; incineration
3Finnishpolttaato burn; to burn, sunburn; to burn, waste
4Proto-Finnicpolttadakto burn
5Proto-Finnicpaladakto burn, to be burning
6Proto-Uralicpala-to devour, eat

via Finnish pumppu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpumppupump; heart
2Swedishpumpa pump
3GermanPumpepump; heart
4Middle Low Germanpumpepump; a pump
5Middle Dutchpompedevice for raising water, pump; pipe, water...
Every word from Proto-Uralic pala- →