Where does “karvakäsikebab” come from?

karvakäsikebab (Finnish) comes from Finnish karvakäsi, from Finnish käsi, from Finnish kahdeksan, from Proto-Finnic kakteksa, from Proto-Finnic kakci, from Proto-Uralic *kakta.

karvakäsikebab (Finnish): a kebab dish sold by a restaurant operated by a person of Middle Eastern (often Turkish) origin

Definitions

  1. a kebab dish sold by a restaurant operated by a person of Middle Eastern (often Turkish) origin

Ancestry of “karvakäsikebab”, step by step

karvakäsikebab traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish karvakäsi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkarvakäsihairy hand, hairy arm
2Finnishkäsihand; arm
3Finnishkahdeksaneight
4Proto-Finnickakteksaeight
5Proto-Finnickakcitwo
6Proto-Uralic*kakta—

via Finnish kebab

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkebabkebab dish of skewered meat and vegetables
2Turkishkebapkebab
3Ottoman Turkishكبابkebab
4Arabicكَبَابroast meat, kebab; fried meat
Every word from Proto-Uralic *kakta →Every word from Proto-Finnic kakci →Every word from Proto-Finnic kakteksa →
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