Where does “puutamaani” come from?

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

puutamaani (Finnish): tree hyrax hyrax of the genus

Definitions

  1. tree hyrax hyrax of the genus

Ancestry of “puutamaani”, step by step

puutamaani traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puu

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

via Finnish tamaani

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtamaanihyrax
2Frenchdamanhyrax
3Arabic[[دَمَان]] ([[إِسْرَائِيل]])—

Words derived from “puutamaani”

Every word from Proto-Uralic puwe →Every word from Proto-Finnic puu →Every word from Finnish puu →