Where does “palotikkaat” come from?

palotikkaat (Finnish) comes from Finnish tikkaat, from Finnish tikas, from Old Swedish stighi.

palotikkaat (Finnish): fire escape ladder

Definitions

  1. fire escape ladder

Ancestry of “palotikkaat”, step by step

palotikkaat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tikkaat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtikkaatladder; Second-person singular indicative present...
2Finnishtikasladder; rung of a ladder
3Old Swedishstighi—

via Finnish Palo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishPaloname of many small places in Finland
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*palo—
Every word from Old Swedish stighi →Every word from Finnish tikas →Every word from Finnish tikkaat →