Where does “tappelupukari” come from?
tappelupukari (Finnish) comes from Finnish pukari, from Swedish puckare, from Swedish puck, from English Puck, from English Pike, from French piqué, from French piquer, from Middle French picquer — "low-pitch humming noise".
tappelupukari (Finnish): rowdy, brawler
Ancestry of “tappelupukari”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | pukari | bully, stirrer, troublemaker |
| 2 | Swedish | puckare | — |
| 3 | Swedish | puck | puck |
| 4 | English | Puck | — |
| 5 | English | Pike | A member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity |
| 6 | French | piqué | past participle of piquer; dive; two fabrics... |
| 7 | French | piquer | to prick; to sting; to nick, pinch, steal |
| 8 | Middle French | picquer | to sting |
| 9 | Old French | piquer | to pierce with the tip of a sword |
| 10 | Vulgar Latin | piccare | to puncture; to sting, strike; to pierce |
| 11 | Frankish | pikkōn | to peck, strike |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | pikōną | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bew- | "low-pitch humming noise" |