Where does “lapasorsa” come from?

lapasorsa (Finnish) comes from Finnish lapa, from Proto-Finnic lapa, from Proto-Uralic lapa — blade.

lapasorsa (Finnish): shoveler any dabbling duck of the genus

Definitions

  1. shoveler any dabbling duck of the genus

Ancestry of “lapasorsa”, step by step

lapasorsa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lapa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlapablade; shoulder of a horse or other animal;...
2Proto-Finniclapablade
3Proto-Uraliclapablade

via Finnish Sorsa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishSorsaduck bird of the
2Proto-Finnicsorsaduck, mallard

Words derived from “lapasorsa”

Every word from Proto-Uralic lapa →Every word from Proto-Finnic lapa →Every word from Finnish lapa →