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Where does “päällyskenkä” come from?

päällyskenkä (Finnish) comes from Finnish kenkä, from Proto-Finnic kenkä — shoe.

päällyskenkä (Finnish): overshoe

Definitions

  1. overshoe

Ancestry of “päällyskenkä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkenkäshoe; boot; boot; in the idiomatic expression...
2Proto-Finnickenkäshoe
Every word from Proto-Finnic kenkä →