Etymograph

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Seppala

Seppala comes from Finnish seppä ‘smith’, and goes back to urj-fpr-pro *śeppä ‘skilled’.

  1. urj-fpr-proprehistoric (reconstructed)*śeppä‘skilled’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Finnicprehistoric (reconstructed)*seppäreconstructed
  3. Finnishmodernseppä‘smith’
  4. Finnish, derivedmodernSeppälä
  5. EnglishtodaySeppala

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. urj-fpr-proprehistoric (reconstructed)*śeppä‘skilled’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Finnicprehistoric (reconstructed)*seppäreconstructed
  3. Finnishmodernseppä‘smith’
  4. Finnish, derivedmodernSeppälä
  5. EnglishtodaySeppala

Today it means

name A surname from Finnish.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / urj-fpr-pro *śeppä / Seppala