Where does “tuulenpesä” come from?

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

tuulenpesä (Finnish): witch's broom disease or deformity in a woody plant

Definitions

  1. witch's broom disease or deformity in a woody plant

Ancestry of “tuulenpesä”, step by step

tuulenpesä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pesä

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

via Finnish Tuuli

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishTuuliwind
2FinnishTuulikkiA forest goddess, daughter of Tapio in the Kalevala

Words derived from “tuulenpesä”

Every word from Proto-Uralic pesä →Every word from Proto-Finnic pesä →Every word from Finnish pesä →