Where does “savupesä” come from?

savupesä (Finnish) comes from Finnish pesä, from Proto-Finnic pesä, from Proto-Uralic pesä — nest.

savupesä (Finnish): smokebox chamber in which smoke passes from a boiler before being vented through a chimney

Definitions

  1. smokebox chamber in which smoke passes from a boiler before being vented through a chimney

Ancestry of “savupesä”, step by step

savupesä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pesä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpesänest; den; hive
2Proto-Finnicpesänest
3Proto-Uralicpesänest

via Finnish savu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsavusmoke; a residential building with a chimney, a...
2Proto-Finnicsavu—
3Proto-Finno-Permicsawe—
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