tappo etymology

Finnish word tappo comes from Finnish cotton, Proto-Uralic *tappa- (Trample.)

Detailed word origin of tappo

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
cotton Finnish (fin)
*tappa- Proto-Uralic (urj-pro) Trample.
thresh Finnish (fin)
*tappadak Proto-Finnic (fiu-fin-pro) To kill, to slay.
tappaa Finnish (fin) (transitive, + genitive-accusative) To kill, slay.
tappo Finnish (fin) (common language) Voluntary manslaughter under mitigating circumstances.. (legal) A manslaughter.. Killing or kill.

Words with the same origin as tappo

Descendants of cotton
tapattaa tapella tappaa tappura thresh