Where does “pätkäpesti” come from?

pätkäpesti (Finnish) comes from Finnish pesti, from Old Swedish fäst.

Ancestry of “pätkäpesti”, step by step

pätkäpesti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pesti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpestijob, task
2Old Swedishfäst—

via Finnish pätkä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpätkäshorty, shortie; clip; snippet
Every word from Old Swedish fäst →Every word from Finnish pesti →