Where does “kiiltonahkakenkä” come from?

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

kiiltonahkakenkä (Finnish): patent leather shoe

Definitions

  1. patent leather shoe

Ancestry of “kiiltonahkakenkä”, step by step

kiiltonahkakenkä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kiiltonahka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkiiltonahkapatent leather, patent
2Finnishnahkaleather; skin of an animal, colloquially also of...
3Proto-Finnicnahkaskin; leather
4Proto-Germanicnaskizskin

via Finnish kenkä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkenkäshoe; boot; boot; in the idiomatic expression...
2Proto-Finnickenkäshoe
Every word from Proto-Germanic naskiz →Every word from Proto-Finnic nahka →Every word from Finnish nahka →