Where does “kermaleivos” come from?

kermaleivos (Finnish) comes from Finnish leivos, from Finnish leipoa, from Proto-Finnic leipoidak.

kermaleivos (Finnish): cream cake, cream pie, cream pastry

Definitions

  1. cream cake, cream pie, cream pastry

Ancestry of “kermaleivos”, step by step

kermaleivos traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish leivos

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishleivospastry, baker's confection
2Finnishleipoato bake
3Proto-Finnicleipoidak—

via Finnish kerma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkermacream; the cream; kerma
2EnglishkermaThe sum of the initial kinetic energies of all...
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