Where does “hankauslevy” come from?

hankauslevy (Finnish) comes from Finnish hankaus, from Finnish hangata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

hankauslevy (Finnish): scrubbing pad

Definitions

  1. scrubbing pad

Ancestry of “hankauslevy”, step by step

hankauslevy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish hankaus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhankausrubbing
2Finnishhangatato rub; "~ vastaan:" to resist
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish levy

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlevyplate; board; slab
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
Every word from Proto-Uralic -täEvery word from Finnish -taEvery word from Finnish hangata