Where does “mokkaturkki” come from?

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

mokkaturkki (Finnish): suede fur

Definitions

  1. suede fur

Ancestry of “mokkaturkki”, step by step

mokkaturkki 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 mokka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmokkamocha; suede
2EnglishMochaThe name originally proposed for JavaScript
3Arabicاَلْمُخَا—
Every word from English dork →Every word from Swedish durk →Every word from Finnish Turkki →