Where does “rapsikärsäkäs” come from?

rapsikärsäkäs (Finnish) comes from Finnish kärsäkäs, from Finnish kas, from Finnish katso!, from Finnish katsoa, from Proto-Finnic kaccodak, from Proto-Germanic gātijaną.

rapsikärsäkäs (Finnish): cabbage seed weevil, cabbage shoot weevil, turnip seed weevil, Ceutorhynchus obstrictus

Definitions

  1. cabbage seed weevil, cabbage shoot weevil, turnip seed weevil, Ceutorhynchus obstrictus

Ancestry of “rapsikärsäkäs”, step by step

rapsikärsäkäs traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kärsäkäs

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkärsäkäsweevil, snout beetle
2Finnishkaslook!, oh!, my!, behold!; look
3Finnishkatso!look!
4Finnishkatsoato look, have a look, take a look; to watch; to...
5Proto-Finnickaccodakto look
6Proto-Germanicgātijaną—

via Finnish rapsi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrapsirapeseed; Third-person singular indicative past...
2Swedishrapsrapeseed
3GermanRapsrapeseed; plural of Rap
4Latinrāpa—
5Latinrāpumturnip
6Proto-Indo-Europeanrap-—
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