Where does “kettuturkki” come from?
kettuturkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish kettu, from Finnish kettää, from Finnish kesi, from Proto-Finnic keci, from Proto-Uralic keδ́e.
kettuturkki (Finnish): fox fur, fox hide
Ancestry of “kettuturkki”, step by step
kettuturkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kettu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kettu | red fox; fox; Euphemistic form of vittu |
| 2 | Finnish | kettää | — |
| 3 | Finnish | kesi | The thin outer layer of skin; Third-person... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | keci | outer skin |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | keδ́e | — |
via Finnish Turkki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Turkki | Turkish |
| 2 | Swedish | durk | ship's floor |
| 3 | English | dork | A quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept... |