Where does “puunuija” come from?

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

puunuija (Finnish): wooden mallet, carpenter's mallet mallet with a wooden head

Definitions

  1. wooden mallet, carpenter's mallet mallet with a wooden head

Ancestry of “puunuija”, step by step

puunuija traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puu

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

via Finnish nuija

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnuijaclub; mallet, maul; bludgeon
2Proto-Finnicnuijaclub, cudgel
Every word from Proto-Uralic puwe →Every word from Proto-Finnic puu →Every word from Finnish puu →