Where does “lakeerikenkä” come from?

lakeerikenkä (Finnish) comes from Finnish kenkä, from Proto-Finnic kenkä — shoe.

Ancestry of “lakeerikenkä”, step by step

lakeerikenkä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kenkä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkenkäshoe; boot; boot; in the idiomatic expression...
2Proto-Finnickenkäshoe

via Finnish lakeeri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlakeeripatent leather
2Swedish[[lackerade]] [[skinn]]—
Every word from Proto-Finnic kenkä →Every word from Finnish kenkä →