Where does “hiilikoukku” come from?

hiilikoukku (Finnish) comes from Finnish hiili, from Proto-Finnic hiili — charcoal; ember.

hiilikoukku (Finnish): a hook-shaped tool used to pull coal out of an oven or to poke the coals

Definitions

  1. a hook-shaped tool used to pull coal out of an oven or to poke the coals

Ancestry of “hiilikoukku”, step by step

hiilikoukku traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish hiili

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhiilicoal; charcoal; carbon
2Proto-Finnichiilicharcoal; ember

via Finnish koukku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkoukkuhook; addiction; used in inessive, elative and...
2Proto-Finnickoukkuhook, hook-shaped tool
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