Where does “puulastu” come from?

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

puulastu (Finnish): wood shaving, wood chip

Definitions

  1. wood shaving, wood chip

Ancestry of “puulastu”, step by step

puulastu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puu

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

via Finnish lastu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlastushaving; chip; short story
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
Every word from Proto-Uralic puwe →Every word from Proto-Finnic puu →Every word from Finnish puu →