Where does “rakkakuoppa” come from?

rakkakuoppa (Finnish) comes from Finnish kuoppa, from Proto-Finnic kooppa — pit.

rakkakuoppa (Finnish): a pit that has been dug in a tor rock formation, often prehistorically, probably to store hunted game

Definitions

  1. a pit that has been dug in a tor rock formation, often prehistorically, probably to store hunted game

Ancestry of “rakkakuoppa”, step by step

rakkakuoppa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kuoppa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkuoppapit; pothole
2Proto-Finnickooppapit

via Finnish rakka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrakkablockfield, block field, felsenmeer, boulder...
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