Where does “minkkitarhaaja” come from?
minkkitarhaaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish minkki, from English mink, from Swedish mink, from Middle Low German mink, from Old Saxon mink.
minkkitarhaaja (Finnish): mink farmer
Ancestry of “minkkitarhaaja”, step by step
minkkitarhaaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish minkki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | minkki | American mink, "Neovison vison"; mink |
| 2 | English | mink | Any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals... |
| 3 | Swedish | mink | American mink |
| 4 | Middle Low German | mink | — |
| 5 | Old Saxon | mink | — |
via Finnish tarhaaja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tarhaaja | ranching, farming |
| 2 | Finnish | tarhata | To ranch, farm |
| 3 | Finnish | -tä | Front vowel variant of -ta |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ta | Partitive ending |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -tä | from |