Where does “karvakenkä” come from?

karvakenkä (Finnish) comes from Finnish karva, from Proto-Finnic karva, from Proto-Finnic kawra.

karvakenkä (Finnish): fur shoe

Definitions

  1. fur shoe

Ancestry of “karvakenkä”, step by step

karvakenkä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish karva

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkarvahair; fur; colors, stripes
2Proto-Finnickarvahair; color
3Proto-Finnickawra—

via Finnish kenkä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkenkäshoe; boot; boot; in the idiomatic expression...
2Proto-Finnickenkäshoe
Every word from Proto-Finnic kawra →Every word from Proto-Finnic karva →Every word from Finnish karva →