Where does “rankasti” come from?

rankasti (Finnish) comes from Finnish rankka, from Proto-Finnic rankka — heavy.

rankasti (Finnish): hard, toughly, intensely, heavily

Definitions

  1. hard, toughly, intensely, heavily

Ancestry of “rankasti”, step by step

rankasti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish rankka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrankkahard; intense; harsh, tough
2Proto-Finnicrankkaheavy

via Finnish sti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsti—
Every word from Proto-Finnic rankka →Every word from Finnish rankka →