Where does “pillifarkut” come from?

pillifarkut (Finnish) comes from Finnish farkut, from English farmarihousut.

pillifarkut (Finnish): skinny jeans, drainpipe jeans

Definitions

  1. skinny jeans, drainpipe jeans

Ancestry of “pillifarkut”, step by step

pillifarkut traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish farkut

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishfarkutjeans, especially blue jeans; pair of jeans;...
2Englishfarmarihousut—

via Finnish pilli

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpilliwhistle; pipe; drinking straw, straw
2Proto-Finnicpillipipe, flute (instrument)
Every word from English farmarihousut →Every word from Finnish farkut →