Where does “hankarauta” come from?

hankarauta (Finnish) comes from Finnish hanka, from Proto-Finnic hanka, from Proto-Uralic šaŋka — branch.

hankarauta (Finnish): a kind of hooked tool used to rub animal hides

Definitions

  1. a kind of hooked tool used to rub animal hides

Ancestry of “hankarauta”, step by step

hankarauta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish hanka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhankafork; Synonym of hankain
2Proto-Finnichankafork of a branch
3Proto-Uralicšaŋkabranch

via Finnish rauta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrautairon; shackles, irons; act of getting or state of...
2Proto-Finnicrautairon
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