Where does “punajuurimehu” come from?

punajuurimehu (Finnish) comes from Finnish punajuuri, from Finnish puna, from Proto-Finnic puna, from Proto-Finno-Ugric puna — color, hair.

punajuurimehu (Finnish): (red) beetroot juice

Definitions

  1. (red) beetroot juice

Ancestry of “punajuurimehu”, step by step

punajuurimehu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish punajuuri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishpunajuuriA red variety of the beet, the beetroot, Beta...
2FinnishpunaThe color red
3Proto-Finnicpunared
4Proto-Finno-Ugricpunacolor, hair

via Finnish mehu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmehujuice; cordial
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
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