Where does “jauhopunkki” come from?

jauhopunkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish jauho, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *jauho.

jauhopunkki (Finnish): flour mite, Acarus siro

Definitions

  1. flour mite, Acarus siro

Ancestry of “jauhopunkki”, step by step

jauhopunkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish jauho

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishjauhoflour
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*jauho—

via Finnish punkki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpunkkiany member of the taxonomic class Acarina,...
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric *jauho →Every word from Finnish jauho →