Where does “sankaritaru” come from?

sankaritaru (Finnish) comes from Finnish sankari, from Old Swedish sangare — singer.

sankaritaru (Finnish): saga, heroic tale

Definitions

  1. saga, heroic tale

Ancestry of “sankaritaru”, step by step

sankaritaru traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sankari

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsankarihero, heroine; great capricorn beetle
2Old Swedishsangaresinger

via Finnish taru

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtaruepic, saga; fiction, false; legend, myth
2DanishDagmar—
Every word from Old Swedish sangare →Every word from Finnish sankari →