Where does “pumpulinpehmeä” come from?

pumpulinpehmeä (Finnish) comes from Finnish pehmeä, from Proto-Finnic pehmedä — soft.

pumpulinpehmeä (Finnish): soft as lint, soft as cotton

Definitions

  1. soft as lint, soft as cotton

Ancestry of “pumpulinpehmeä”, step by step

pumpulinpehmeä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pehmeä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpehmeäsoft; silky; smooth
2Proto-Finnicpehmedäsoft

via Finnish pumpuli

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpumpulicotton; lint, cotton
2Swedishbomullcotton; the textile made from the fiber harvested...
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