Where does “kiiltonahka” come from?

kiiltonahka (Finnish) comes from Finnish nahka, from Proto-Finnic nahka, from Proto-Germanic naskiz — skin.

kiiltonahka (Finnish): patent leather, patent

Definitions

  1. patent leather, patent

Ancestry of “kiiltonahka”, step by step

kiiltonahka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish nahka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnahkaleather; skin of an animal, colloquially also of...
2Proto-Finnicnahkaskin; leather
3Proto-Germanicnaskizskin

via Finnish kiilto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkiiltoglint, gleam, shine; lustre
2Finnish-öFront vowel variant of -o

Words derived from “kiiltonahka”

Every word from Proto-Germanic naskiz →Every word from Proto-Finnic nahka →Every word from Finnish nahka →