Where does “tapettivuota” come from?

tapettivuota (Finnish) comes from Finnish vuota, from Proto-Finnic voota, from Proto-Finnic vootadak, from Proto-Finnic voo, from Proto-Uralic uwa- — to flow.

tapettivuota (Finnish): drop strip of wallpaper cut from a roll, extending from the floor to the ceiling

Definitions

  1. drop strip of wallpaper cut from a roll, extending from the floor to the ceiling

Ancestry of “tapettivuota”, step by step

tapettivuota traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vuota

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvuotahide, pelt; Partitive singular form of vuo
2Proto-Finnicvootahide, pelt
3Proto-Finnicvootadakto flow; to trickle, to seep; to leak
4Proto-Finnicvooflow
5Proto-Uralicuwa-to flow

via Finnish tapetti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtapettiwallpaper
2Swedishtapeta wallpaper
Every word from Proto-Uralic uwa- →Every word from Proto-Finnic voo →Every word from Proto-Finnic vootadak →
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