Where does “puuritilä” come from?

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

puuritilä (Finnish): wooden grate

Definitions

  1. wooden grate

Ancestry of “puuritilä”, step by step

puuritilä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puu

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

via Finnish ritilä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishritilägrate, grill, grating
Every word from Proto-Uralic puwe →Every word from Proto-Finnic puu →Every word from Finnish puu →