Where does “saukkotanrekki” come from?

saukkotanrekki (Finnish) comes from Finnish tanrekki, from French tanrec, from Malagasy tàndraka.

saukkotanrekki (Finnish): otter shrew shrew of the family

Definitions

  1. otter shrew shrew of the family

Ancestry of “saukkotanrekki”, step by step

saukkotanrekki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tanrekki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtanrekkitenrec
2Frenchtanrectenrec
3Malagasytàndraka—

via Finnish saukko

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishsaukkoEuropean otter, "Lutra lutra"; otter; Old World...
2Proto-Finnicsagukkoi—
3Proto-Finnicsagarvaotter
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