Where does “puumalja” come from?

puumalja (Ingrian) comes from Ingrian puu, from Proto-Finnic puu, from Proto-Uralic puwe — tree, wood.

puumalja (Ingrian): wooden dish

Definitions

  1. wooden dish

Ancestry of “puumalja”, step by step

puumalja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ingrian puu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ingrianpuutree
2Proto-Finnicpuutree
3Proto-Uralicpuwetree, wood

via Ingrian malja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ingrianmaljadish
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*malja—
3Proto-Norsemālia-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic puwe →Every word from Proto-Finnic puu →Every word from Ingrian puu →