Where does “rankahake” come from?

rankahake (Finnish) comes from Finnish hake, from Finnish hakata, from Proto-Finnic hak'at'ak.

rankahake (Finnish): wood chip made from dried and delimbed trees

Definitions

  1. wood chip made from dried and delimbed trees

Ancestry of “rankahake”, step by step

rankahake traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish hake

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhakewoodchips as mass, e.g. when used as fuel
2Finnishhakatato hit something repeatedly, as a nail with a...
3Proto-Finnichak'at'ak—

via Finnish ranka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrankapole; stalk; spine
2Proto-Finnicranka—
Every word from Proto-Finnic hak'at'ak →Every word from Finnish hakata →Every word from Finnish hake →