Where does “nahkainen” come from?

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

nahkainen (Finnish): leather; leathery

Definitions

  1. leather; leathery

Ancestry of “nahkainen”, step by step

nahkainen 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 inen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishinen—

Words derived from “nahkainen”

Every word from Proto-Germanic naskiz →Every word from Proto-Finnic nahka →Every word from Finnish nahka →