Where does “puujauho” come from?

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

puujauho (Finnish): wood flour

Definitions

  1. wood flour

Ancestry of “puujauho”, step by step

puujauho traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puu

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

via Finnish jauho

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishjauhoflour
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*jauho—
Every word from Proto-Uralic puwe →Every word from Proto-Finnic puu →Every word from Finnish puu →