Where does “puusprii” come from?

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

puusprii (Finnish): wood alcohol

Definitions

  1. wood alcohol

Ancestry of “puusprii”, step by step

puusprii traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puu

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

via Finnish sprii

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishspriispirit, ethanol; "short for" spriipurje
Every word from Proto-Uralic puwe →