Where does “nahkahapero” come from?

nahkahapero (Finnish) comes from Finnish hapero, from Finnish hapera, from Finnish haprea, from Finnish hauras, from Proto-Finnic hapras — brittle, fragile, weak.

nahkahapero (Finnish): A brittlegill, Russula alutacea

Definitions

  1. A brittlegill, Russula alutacea

Ancestry of “nahkahapero”, step by step

nahkahapero traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish hapero

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhaperobrittlegill, russula; brittle
2Finnishhaperabrittle
3Finnishhaprea—
4Finnishhaurasbrittle, fragile, frail, friable, crumbly,...
5Proto-Finnichaprasbrittle, fragile, weak

via Finnish nahka

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

Words derived from “nahkahapero”

Every word from Proto-Finnic hapras →Every word from Finnish hauras →Every word from Finnish haprea →