Where does “panssaripaita” come from?

panssaripaita (Finnish) comes from Finnish panssari, from Swedish pansar, from Old Swedish panzar, from Middle Low German pantzer, from Italian panciera, from Italian pancia, from Latin pantex — belly, paunch, guts.

panssaripaita (Finnish): armor shirt; shirt of mail, mail shirt, hauberk, or a lamellar shirt

Definitions

armor shirt; shirt of mail, mail shirt, hauberk, or a lamellar shirt

Ancestry of “panssaripaita”, step by step

panssaripaita traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish panssari

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Finnish	panssari	armor, armour, armouring; carapace
2	Swedish	pansar	an armour
3	Old Swedish	panzar	—
4	Middle Low German	pantzer	—
5	Italian	panciera	corset, girdle
6	Italian	pancia	belly, stomach, paunch
7	Latin	pantex	belly, paunch, guts

via Finnish paita

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Finnish	paita	shirt; Partitive singular form of pai;...
2	Proto-Finno-Ugric	*paita	—
3	Proto-Germanic	paidō	coat, cloak; smock, tunic, shirt
4	Proto-Indo-European	baiteh₂-	woolen clothes

Every word from Latin pantex →Every word from Italian pancia →Every word from Italian panciera →