Where does “puunpurenta” come from?

puunpurenta (Finnish) comes from Finnish purenta, from Finnish purra, from Finnish -skella, from Proto-Finnic -skeldak, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -śk-.

puunpurenta (Finnish): cribbing, crib-biting tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure

Definitions

  1. cribbing, crib-biting tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure

Ancestry of “puunpurenta”, step by step

puunpurenta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish purenta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpurentaocclusion
2FinnishpurraTo bite
3Finnish-skellaForms frequentative verbs, chiefly from...
4Proto-Finnic-skeldakForms frequentative verbs
5Proto-Finno-Ugric-śk-—

via Finnish puu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpuutree; wood
2Proto-Finnicpuutree
3Proto-Uralicpuwetree, wood
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -śk- →Every word from Finnish -skella →Every word from Finnish purra →