Where does “pikkurumpu” come from?

pikkurumpu (Finnish) comes from Finnish pikku, from Finnish pieni, from Proto-Finnic peeni — little, small; fine.

pikkurumpu (Finnish): snare drum

Definitions

  1. snare drum

Ancestry of “pikkurumpu”, step by step

pikkurumpu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pikku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpikkulittle, small; little old
2Finnishpienilittle, small; Third-person singular indicative...
3Proto-Finnicpeenilittle, small; fine

via Finnish rumpu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrumpudrum; cylinder; underpass built under e.g. roads...
2Old Swedishtrumba—
Every word from Proto-Finnic peeni →Every word from Finnish pieni →Every word from Finnish pikku →