Where does “röhönauru” come from?

röhönauru (Finnish) comes from Finnish nauru, from English Nauru, from German Nauru, from Nauruan Naoero.

röhönauru (Finnish): snorting laugh

Definitions

  1. snorting laugh

Ancestry of “röhönauru”, step by step

röhönauru traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish nauru

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishnauruLaughter, laugh; The Nauru language
2EnglishNauruNauruan, the language of Nauru
3GermanNauru—
4NauruanNaoero—

via Finnish röhöttää

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishröhöttää—
2Finnishottaato take; to take, ingest or drink; to deprive of,...
3Proto-Finnicvottadakto take
4Proto-Indo-Europeanwendʰ-to wind, to turn
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