Where does “piisamiturkki” come from?

piisamiturkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish Turkki, from Swedish durk, from English dork — A quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept...

piisamiturkki (Finnish): muskrat fur

Definitions

  1. muskrat fur

Ancestry of “piisamiturkki”, step by step

piisamiturkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Turkki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishTurkkiTurkish
2Swedishdurkship's floor
3EnglishdorkA quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept...

via Finnish piisami

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpiisamimuskrat, Ondathra zibeticus
2Swedishbisam—
Every word from English dork →Every word from Swedish durk →Every word from Finnish Turkki →