Where does “palvimakkara” come from?

palvimakkara (Finnish) comes from Finnish pälvi, from Finnish palvata — to cure.

palvimakkara (Finnish): slowly smoked sausage (in relatively mild heat, often 60–100°C or 140-210 F)

Definitions

  1. slowly smoked sausage (in relatively mild heat, often 60–100°C or 140-210 F)

Ancestry of “palvimakkara”, step by step

palvimakkara traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pälvi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpälvia bald spot, a patch of snow-free ground,...
2Finnishpalvatato cure

via Finnish makkara

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmakkarasausage
Every word from Finnish palvata →Every word from Finnish pälvi →