Where does “kankeasti” come from?

kankeasti (Finnish) comes from Finnish kankea, from Proto-Finnic kankeda — stiff.

kankeasti (Finnish): stiffly; clumsily

Definitions

  1. stiffly; clumsily

Ancestry of “kankeasti”, step by step

kankeasti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kankea

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkankeastiff; awkward, clumsy; Partitive singular form...
2Proto-Finnickankedastiff

via Finnish sti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsti—
Every word from Proto-Finnic kankeda →Every word from Finnish kankea →