kraanavesi (Finnish) comes from Finnish kraana, from Swedish kran, from Middle Low German krān, from Middle Low German krāne, from Old Saxon krano, from Proto-West Germanic kranō, from Proto-Germanic kranô, from Proto-Indo-European ǵerh₂- — to grow old, to mature.
Ancestry of “kraanavesi”, step by step
kraanavesi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.