Where does “rankoa” come from?

rankoa (Finnish) comes from Finnish -öä, from Proto-Finnic -odak, from Proto-Uralic -w-.

rankoa (Finnish): To limb, delimb to strip a tree bare of its branches

Definitions

  1. To limb, delimb to strip a tree bare of its branches

Ancestry of “rankoa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-öäFront vowel variant of -oa
2Proto-Finnic-odakForms some verbs
3Proto-Uralic-w-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -w- →Every word from Finnish -öä →Every word from Proto-Finnic -odak →