Where does “majavaturkki” come from?

majavaturkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish Turkki, from Swedish durk, from English dork — A quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept...

majavaturkki (Finnish): beaver fur

Definitions

  1. beaver fur

Ancestry of “majavaturkki”, step by step

majavaturkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Turkki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishTurkkiTurkish
2Swedishdurkship's floor
3EnglishdorkA quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept...

via Finnish majava

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmajavabeaver
2Proto-Finnicmajagabeaver
3Proto-Finno-Permicmaja—
Every word from English dork →Every word from Swedish durk →Every word from Finnish Turkki →