Where does “punarousku” come from?

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

punarousku (Finnish): A milk-cap, Lactarius lilacinus

Definitions

  1. A milk-cap, Lactarius lilacinus

Ancestry of “punarousku”, step by step

punarousku traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puna

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishpunaThe color red
2Proto-Finnicpunared
3Proto-Finno-Ugricpunacolor, hair

via Finnish rousku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishrouskuA milk-cap
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
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