Where does “nokilokki” come from?

nokilokki (Finnish) comes from Finnish noki, from Proto-Finnic noki — soot.

nokilokki (Finnish): sooty gull

Definitions

  1. sooty gull

Ancestry of “nokilokki”, step by step

nokilokki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish noki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnokisoot; Indicative present connegative form of...
2Proto-Finnicnokisoot

via Finnish lokki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlokkigull, seagull
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