Where does “haisunoki” come from?

haisunoki (Finnish) comes from Finnish haisu, from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u — Forms nouns from adjectives, nouns.

haisunoki (Finnish): common bunt, stinking smut, covered smut

Definitions

  1. common bunt, stinking smut, covered smut

Ancestry of “haisunoki”, step by step

haisunoki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish haisu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhaisustink
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns

via Finnish noki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnokisoot; Indicative present connegative form of...
2Proto-Finnicnokisoot
Every word from Proto-Finnic -u →Every word from Finnish -u →Every word from Finnish haisu →