Where does “kengänkiillottaja” come from?

kengänkiillottaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish kiillottaja, from Finnish jä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ja, from Proto-Germanic jahw, from Proto-Germanic -hw, from Proto-Germanic -hwe, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.

kengänkiillottaja (Finnish): bootblack, shoeblack, shoeshiner

Definitions

  1. bootblack, shoeblack, shoeshiner

Ancestry of “kengänkiillottaja”, step by step

kengänkiillottaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kiillottaja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishkiillottajaA polisher
2Finnishjäice
3Proto-Finno-Ugric*ja—
4Proto-Germanicjahwand, also
5Proto-Germanic-hwand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
6Proto-Germanic-hwe—
7Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives

via Finnish kenkä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkenkäshoe; boot; boot; in the idiomatic expression...
2Proto-Finnickenkäshoe
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe →Every word from Proto-Germanic -hw →Every word from Proto-Germanic jahw →