Where does “puupökkelö” come from?

puupökkelö (Finnish) comes from Finnish pökkelö, from Finnish -lö, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

puupökkelö (Finnish): block of wood

Definitions

  1. block of wood

Ancestry of “puupökkelö”, step by step

puupökkelö traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pökkelö

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpökkelörotting tree
2Finnish-löFront vowel variant of -lo
3Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
4Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
5Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
6Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

via Finnish puu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpuutree; wood
2Proto-Finnicpuutree
3Proto-Uralicpuwetree, wood
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish -lö →