Where does “kengänpaula” come from?

kengänpaula (Finnish) comes from Finnish Paula, from Latin paula, from Latin paulus, from Latin paullus.

kengänpaula (Finnish): shoelace, bootlace, lace

Definitions

  1. shoelace, bootlace, lace

Ancestry of “kengänpaula”, step by step

kengänpaula traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Paula

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishPaulacord, lace, string
2Latinpaulanominative feminine singular of paulus;...
3Latinpauluslittle, small
4Latinpaullus—

via Finnish kenkä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkenkäshoe; boot; boot; in the idiomatic expression...
2Proto-Finnickenkäshoe
Every word from Latin paullus →