Where does “panttivelkakirja” come from?

panttivelkakirja (Finnish) comes from Finnish velkakirja, from Finnish kirja, from Proto-Finnic kirja — decoration, carving, pattern.

panttivelkakirja (Finnish): promissory note with a mortgage

Definitions

  1. promissory note with a mortgage

Ancestry of “panttivelkakirja”, step by step

panttivelkakirja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish velkakirja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvelkakirjapromissory note, note; IOU
2Finnishkirjabook; quire
3Proto-Finnickirjadecoration, carving, pattern

via Finnish pantti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpanttipledge; deposit
2Middle Low Germanpant—
Every word from Proto-Finnic kirja →Every word from Finnish kirja →Every word from Finnish velkakirja →