Where does “haarukkahapero” come from?

haarukkahapero (Finnish) comes from Finnish hapero, from Finnish hapera, from Finnish haprea, from Finnish hauras, from Proto-Finnic hapras — brittle, fragile, weak.

haarukkahapero (Finnish): greasy green brittlegill, Russula heterophylla

Definitions

  1. greasy green brittlegill, Russula heterophylla

Ancestry of “haarukkahapero”, step by step

haarukkahapero traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish hapero

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhaperobrittlegill, russula; brittle
2Finnishhaperabrittle
3Finnishhaprea—
4Finnishhaurasbrittle, fragile, frail, friable, crumbly,...
5Proto-Finnichaprasbrittle, fragile, weak

via Finnish haarukka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhaarukkafork; range, bracket; Short for etuhaarukka
2Finnishhaarabranch; fork, bifurcation; offshoot
3Proto-Finnichaarabranch
Every word from Proto-Finnic hapras →Every word from Finnish hauras →Every word from Finnish haprea →