Where does “puuvaja” come from?

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

puuvaja (Finnish): woodshed

Definitions

  1. woodshed

Ancestry of “puuvaja”, step by step

puuvaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puu

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

via Finnish vaja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvajashed, hut
Every word from Proto-Uralic puwe →Every word from Proto-Finnic puu →Every word from Finnish puu →