Where does “puhas” come from?

puhas (Proto-Malayic) comes from Proto-Finnic puhtas, from Proto-Indo-European puHtós, from Proto-Indo-European pewH- — to be clean, pure.

Ancestry of “puhas”, step by step

puhas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Finnic puhtas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finnicpuhtasclean
2Proto-Indo-EuropeanpuHtóspure, clean
3Proto-Indo-EuropeanpewH-to be clean, pure

via Proto-Malayo-Polynesian puqas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayo-Polynesianpuqas—

Words derived from “puhas”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European pewH- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European puHtós →Every word from Proto-Finnic puhtas →