Where does “rapsikirppa” come from?

rapsikirppa (Finnish) comes from Finnish rapsi, from Swedish raps, from German Raps, from Latin rāpa, from Latin rāpum, from Proto-Indo-European rap-.

rapsikirppa (Finnish): cabbage stem flea beetle, rape flea beetle, Psylliodes chrysocephala

Definitions

  1. cabbage stem flea beetle, rape flea beetle, Psylliodes chrysocephala

Ancestry of “rapsikirppa”, step by step

rapsikirppa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish rapsi

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

via Finnish kirppa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkirppaflea beetle; Synonym of pilppu
2Finnishkirppuflea
3Proto-Finnickirppuflea
Every word from Proto-Indo-European rap- →