Where does “raatokärpänen” come from?

raatokärpänen (Finnish) comes from Finnish raato, from Proto-Finnic raato — animal carcass.

raatokärpänen (Finnish): blowfly

Definitions

  1. blowfly

Ancestry of “raatokärpänen”, step by step

raatokärpänen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish raato

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishraatoAn animal carcass, corpse; A dead human corpse
2Proto-Finnicraatoanimal carcass

via Finnish kärpänen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkärpänenfly; bug; out, when caused by the baserunner...
2Proto-Finnickärpähinenfly insect
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