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Where does “olkijauho” come from?

olkijauho (Finnish) comes from Finnish olki, from Proto-Finnic olki — hay.

olkijauho (Finnish): straw flour

Definitions

  1. straw flour

Ancestry of “olkijauho”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnisholkistraw; thatch
2Proto-Finnicolkihay
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