Where does “rintapuu” come from?

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

rintapuu (Finnish): breast boom

Definitions

  1. breast boom

Ancestry of “rintapuu”, step by step

rintapuu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puu

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

via Finnish rinta

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