Where does “puuveistos” come from?

puuveistos (Finnish) comes from Finnish veistos, from Finnish veistää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

puuveistos (Finnish): wooden sculpture

Definitions

  1. wooden sculpture

Ancestry of “puuveistos”, step by step

puuveistos traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish veistos

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishveistosA sculpture
2Finnishveistääto carve, cut, whittle; to sculpture, sculpt, hew
3Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-—

via Finnish puu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpuutree; wood
2Proto-Finnicpuutree
3Proto-Uralicpuwetree, wood
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →