puu

puu = tree, wood in Estonian

What I love about learning languages is the magic. When you learn one language you discover that you understand another or sometimes a whole family of languages.

I study Finnish and when I recently saw an Estonian sentence with a word “puu” I knew straight away that the sentence is about a tree. And that’s not the end.

puu in Finnish, Estonian, Ingrian, Karelian, Livvi, Ludian, Võro, Votic
pū in Livian
pu in Veps
All meaning “tree”.

They all come from the Proto-Finnic “puu” meaning “tree”.

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