Where does “kankeus” come from?

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

kankeus (Finnish): stiffness; rigidity

Definitions

  1. stiffness; rigidity

Ancestry of “kankeus”, step by step

kankeus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kankea

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

via Finnish uus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishuusAlternative form of uusi

Words derived from “kankeus”

Every word from Proto-Finnic kankeda →Every word from Finnish kankea →