Where does “nyrkkirauta” come from?

nyrkkirauta (Finnish) comes from Finnish rauta, from Proto-Finnic rauta — iron.

nyrkkirauta (Finnish): brass knuckles

Definitions

  1. brass knuckles

Ancestry of “nyrkkirauta”, step by step

nyrkkirauta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish rauta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrautairon; shackles, irons; act of getting or state of...
2Proto-Finnicrautairon

via Finnish nyrkki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnyrkkifist
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