Where does “mätäpunkki” come from?

mätäpunkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish mätä, from Proto-Finnic mätä — pus; rotten.

mätäpunkki (Finnish): any mite of the genus Acaridae, some of them commonly called mold mite in English

Definitions

  1. any mite of the genus Acaridae, some of them commonly called mold mite in English

Ancestry of “mätäpunkki”, step by step

mätäpunkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish mätä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmätärotten; fishy; pus
2Proto-Finnicmätäpus; rotten

via Finnish punkki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpunkkiany member of the taxonomic class Acarina,...
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