Where does “puukkohippaset” come from?

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

puukkohippaset (Finnish): knife fight

Definitions

  1. knife fight

Ancestry of “puukkohippaset”, step by step

puukkohippaset 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 →