Where does “puuhaarukka” come from?

puuhaarukka (Finnish) comes from Finnish puu, from Proto-Finnic puu, from Proto-Uralic puwe — tree, wood.

puuhaarukka (Finnish): wooden fork

Definitions

  1. wooden fork

Ancestry of “puuhaarukka”, step by step

puuhaarukka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpuutree; wood
2Proto-Finnicpuutree
3Proto-Uralicpuwetree, wood

via Finnish haarukka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhaarukkafork; range, bracket; Short for etuhaarukka
2Finnishhaarabranch; fork, bifurcation; offshoot
3Proto-Finnichaarabranch
Every word from Proto-Uralic puwe →Every word from Proto-Finnic puu →Every word from Finnish puu →