Where does “puuhevonen” come from?

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

puuhevonen (Finnish): wooden toy horse

Definitions

  1. wooden toy horse

Ancestry of “puuhevonen”, step by step

puuhevonen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puu

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

via Finnish hevonen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhevonenhorse, "Equus caballus"; horse; knight
2Proto-Finnichepoinenhorse
3Proto-Finnic-inen-ish, -ic, -like, -y; -en
Every word from Proto-Uralic puwe →Every word from Proto-Finnic puu →Every word from Finnish puu →