Where does “tappelupeli” come from?
tappelupeli (Finnish) comes from Finnish tappelu, from Finnish tapella, from Finnish -ella, from Proto-Finnic -eldak, from Proto-Uralic -le-.
tappelupeli (Finnish): fighting game
Ancestry of “tappelupeli”, step by step
tappelupeli traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tappelu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tappelu | fight, altercation, wrangle |
| 2 | Finnish | tapella | to fight, brawl; to quarrel, squabble |
| 3 | Finnish | -ella | Forms . The resulting verb often describes a more... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -eldak | Forms frequentative verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -le- | — |
via Finnish peli
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | peli | game; match, game; game; tool, means, implement,... |
| 2 | Middle Low German | spel | — |
| 3 | Old Saxon | spil | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | spil | dance; game, exercise |