Where does “kalkkunasarvekas” come from?

kalkkunasarvekas (Finnish) comes from Finnish kalkkuna, from Dutch kalkoen, from Dutch Calcoen, from English Calicut, from Romanian -uț, from Latin -utus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

kalkkunasarvekas (Finnish): northern ground hornbill

Definitions

  1. northern ground hornbill

Ancestry of “kalkkunasarvekas”, step by step

kalkkunasarvekas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kalkkuna

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkalkkunaturkey, Meleagris gallopavo
2Dutchkalkoenturkey, "Meleagris gallopavo"
3DutchCalcoen
4EnglishCalicut
5Romanian-uțForms masculine diminutives of nouns and...
6Latin-utus
7Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
8Proto-Italic-tus
9Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

via Finnish sarvekas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsarvekashorned
2Finnishsarvihorn; antler; handlebar
3Proto-Finnicsarvihorn
4Proto-Finno-Ugricśarwe
5Proto-Indo-Iranian*ćr̥Hwáshorn
6Proto-Indo-Europeanḱr̥h₂-wó-s
7Proto-Indo-Europeanḱerh₂-head, top; horn

Words derived from “kalkkunasarvekas

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus