Where does “ruokakerma” come from?

ruokakerma (Finnish) comes from Finnish ruoka, from Proto-Finnic rooka, from Proto-Germanic rōkō — care, attention.

ruokakerma (Finnish): cooking cream, single cream relatively low-fat cream

Definitions

  1. cooking cream, single cream relatively low-fat cream

Ancestry of “ruokakerma”, step by step

ruokakerma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish ruoka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishruokafood; meal
2Proto-Finnicrookafood; meal
3Proto-Germanicrōkōcare, attention

via Finnish kerma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkermacream; the cream; kerma
2EnglishkermaThe sum of the initial kinetic energies of all...
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