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

päällyskenkä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kenkä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkenkäshoe; boot; boot; in the idiomatic expression...
2Proto-Finnickenkäshoe

via Finnish päällys

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpäällystop, cover, overlay
2Finnishus-ing
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