Where does “puuvene” come from?

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

puuvene (Finnish): wooden boat

Definitions

  1. wooden boat

Ancestry of “puuvene”, step by step

puuvene traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puu

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

via Finnish vene

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishveneboat
2Proto-Finnicvenehboat
Every word from Proto-Uralic puwe →Every word from Proto-Finnic puu →Every word from Finnish puu →