Where does “nahkasaapas” come from?

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

nahkasaapas (Finnish): leather boot

Definitions

  1. leather boot

Ancestry of “nahkasaapas”, step by step

nahkasaapas 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 saapas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsaapasboot
2Old East Slavicсапогъ—
3Proto-Slavicsapogъ—
Every word from Proto-Germanic naskiz →Every word from Proto-Finnic nahka →Every word from Finnish nahka →