Where does “reikämeisti” come from?

reikämeisti (Finnish) comes from Finnish reikä, from Proto-Finnic raika, from Proto-Finnic rajka.

reikämeisti (Finnish): arc punch, handle punch, perforating punch, hole punch tool

Definitions

  1. arc punch, handle punch, perforating punch, hole punch tool

Ancestry of “reikämeisti”, step by step

reikämeisti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish reikä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishreikähole; puncture; cavity
2Proto-Finnicraikahole
3Proto-Finnicrajka—

via Finnish meisti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmeistipunch device for creating holes in material: hard metal rod with a shaped tip at one end and a blunt butt end at the other, which is usually struck by a hammer; used to indent or create holes through a surface
2Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
3Proto-Uralic-joblique plural
Every word from Proto-Finnic rajka →Every word from Proto-Finnic raika →Every word from Finnish reikä →