Where does “nahas” come from?

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

nahas (Finnish): kip, pelt untanned, but unhaired and often also pickled animal skin

Definitions

  1. kip, pelt untanned, but unhaired and often also pickled animal skin

Ancestry of “nahas”, step by step

nahas 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 s

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsthe letter s
Every word from Proto-Germanic naskiz →Every word from Proto-Finnic nahka →Every word from Finnish nahka →