Where does “sinooperipuna” come from?

sinooperipuna (Finnish) comes from Finnish puna, from Proto-Finnic puna, from Proto-Finno-Ugric puna — color, hair.

sinooperipuna (Finnish): vermilion, cinnabar dye

Definitions

  1. vermilion, cinnabar dye

Ancestry of “sinooperipuna”, step by step

sinooperipuna traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puna

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishpunaThe color red
2Proto-Finnicpunared
3Proto-Finno-Ugricpunacolor, hair

via Finnish sinooperi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsinoopericinnabar
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