Where does “lyömäveitsi” come from?
lyömäveitsi (Finnish) comes from Finnish lyödä, from Proto-Finnic löödäk, from Proto-Finno-Ugric lewe- — to throw, shoot.
lyömäveitsi (Finnish): hacking knife: single-edged knife for cutting hard materials, like the keratin of horses' hooves
Definitions
- hacking knife: single-edged knife for cutting hard materials, like the keratin of horses' hooves
Ancestry of “lyömäveitsi”, step by step
lyömäveitsi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.