Where does “puukkohippa” come from?

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

puukkohippa (Finnish): a knife fight

Definitions

  1. a knife fight

Ancestry of “puukkohippa”, step by step

puukkohippa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puukko

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpuukkohunting knife, puukko
2Finnishpuutree; wood
3Proto-Finnicpuutree
4Proto-Uralicpuwetree, wood

via Finnish hippa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhippatag; it
Every word from Proto-Uralic puwe →Every word from Proto-Finnic puu →Every word from Finnish puu →
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