Where does “hiihtokenkä” come from?

hiihtokenkä (Finnish) comes from Finnish hiihto, from Finnish hiihtää — To ski.

hiihtokenkä (Finnish): skiing shoe

Definitions

  1. skiing shoe

Ancestry of “hiihtokenkä”, step by step

hiihtokenkä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish hiihto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhiihtoskiing; "In plural," skiing games
2FinnishhiihtääTo ski

via Finnish kenkä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkenkäshoe; boot; boot; in the idiomatic expression...
2Proto-Finnickenkäshoe
Every word from Finnish hiihtää →Every word from Finnish hiihto →