Where does “haljasnahka” come from?

haljasnahka (Finnish) comes from Finnish nahka, from Proto-Finnic nahka, from Proto-Germanic naskiz — skin.

haljasnahka (Finnish): split leather sheet of leather produced by splitting a raw hide into layers

Definitions

  1. split leather sheet of leather produced by splitting a raw hide into layers

Ancestry of “haljasnahka”, step by step

haljasnahka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish nahka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnahkaleather; skin of an animal, colloquially also of...
2Proto-Finnicnahkaskin; leather
3Proto-Germanicnaskizskin

via Finnish haljas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishhaljasThe flesh side of split leather, see haljasnahka
2Proto-Finnichaljasgreen
Every word from Proto-Germanic naskiz →Every word from Proto-Finnic nahka →Every word from Finnish nahka →