Where does “mursunnahka” come from?

mursunnahka (Finnish) comes from Finnish nahka, from Proto-Finnic nahka, from Proto-Germanic naskiz — skin.

mursunnahka (Finnish): walrus leather, walrus skin

Definitions

  1. walrus leather, walrus skin

Ancestry of “mursunnahka”, step by step

mursunnahka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish nahka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnahkaleather; skin of an animal, colloquially also of...
2Proto-Finnicnahkaskin; leather
3Proto-Germanicnaskizskin

via Finnish mursu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmursuwalrus
2Northern Samimoršawalrus
3Proto-Samic*moršëwalrus
Every word from Proto-Germanic naskiz →Every word from Proto-Finnic nahka →Every word from Finnish nahka →