Where does “puuliesi” come from?

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

puuliesi (Finnish): wood-burning stove, wood-burning cook stove

Definitions

  1. wood-burning stove, wood-burning cook stove

Ancestry of “puuliesi”, step by step

puuliesi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puu

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

via Finnish liesi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishliesifire
2Proto-Finnicleecihearth, stove
3Proto-Germanicslēdaz—
Every word from Proto-Uralic puwe →Every word from Proto-Finnic puu →Every word from Finnish puu →