Where does “rintapala” come from?

rintapala (Finnish) comes from Finnish pala, from Proto-Finnic pala, from Proto-Uralic pala — bit.

rintapala (Finnish): piece of breast meat, brisket

Definitions

  1. piece of breast meat, brisket

Ancestry of “rintapala”, step by step

rintapala traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pala

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpalapiece, bit; lump, chunk; block
2Proto-Finnicpalabit
3Proto-Uralicpalabit

via Finnish rinta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrintabreast; chest, especially the front side of it
2Finnish-mäFront vowel variant of -ma
Every word from Proto-Uralic pala →Every word from Proto-Finnic pala →Every word from Finnish pala →