Where does “panttileikki” come from?

panttileikki (Finnish) comes from Finnish pantti, from Middle Low German pant.

panttileikki (Finnish): forfeits game

Definitions

  1. forfeits game

Ancestry of “panttileikki”, step by step

panttileikki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pantti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpanttipledge; deposit
2Middle Low Germanpant—

via Finnish leikki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishleikkiplay; Third-person singular indicative past form...
2Old Swedishleker—
Every word from Middle Low German pant →Every word from Finnish pantti →