Where does “pooki” come from?
pooki (Finnish) comes from Swedish båk, from Turkish bak, from Turkish bakmak, from Ottoman Turkish باقمق, from Proto-Turkic *bak-.
pooki (Finnish): daymark
Ancestry of “pooki”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Swedish | båk | daymark |
| 2 | Turkish | bak | second-person singular imperative of bakmak; look |
| 3 | Turkish | bakmak | to look , gaze; to face, view, watch, have a... |
| 4 | Ottoman Turkish | باقمق | to look; to look at |
| 5 | Proto-Turkic | *bak- | — |