Where does “polgupyörä” come from?

polgupyörä (Karelian) comes from Finnish polkupyörä, from Finnish polku, from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u — Forms nouns from adjectives, nouns.

polgupyörä (Karelian): bicycle

Definitions

  1. bicycle

Ancestry of “polgupyörä”, step by step

polgupyörä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish polkupyörä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpolkupyöräbicycle
2Finnishpolkupath, trail, track; path; treading, stomping
3Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
4Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns

via Karelian polgu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Karelianpolgupath, track
2Karelianpolgie—
Every word from Proto-Finnic -u →Every word from Finnish -u →Every word from Finnish polku →