Where does “petäjälatva” come from?

petäjälatva (Ingrian) comes from Finnish petäjä, from Proto-Finnic petägä, from Proto-Uralic pečä — pine.

petäjälatva (Ingrian): treetop of a pine

Definitions

  1. treetop of a pine

Ancestry of “petäjälatva”, step by step

petäjälatva traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish petäjä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpetäjäpine; a large, lone pine tree
2Proto-Finnicpetägäpine
3Proto-Uralicpečäpine

via Ingrian latva

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ingrianlatvatreetop
Every word from Proto-Uralic pečä →Every word from Proto-Finnic petägä →Every word from Finnish petäjä →