Where does “valtapuu” come from?

valtapuu (Finnish) comes from Finnish puu, from Proto-Finnic puu, from Proto-Uralic puwe — tree, wood.

valtapuu (Finnish): dominant tree (species)

Definitions

  1. dominant tree (species)

Ancestry of “valtapuu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpuutree; wood
2Proto-Finnicpuutree
3Proto-Uralicpuwetree, wood
Every word from Proto-Uralic puwe