Where does “puusilmä” come from?

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

puusilmä (Finnish): A wooden eye; an eye prosthesis made of wood; An...

Definitions

  1. A wooden eye; an eye prosthesis made of wood; An...

Ancestry of “puusilmä”, step by step

puusilmä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puu

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

via Finnish silmä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsilmäeye; mesh, opening in a mesh or net
2Proto-Finnicsilmäeye
3Proto-Uralicśilmäeye
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