Where does “soopeliturkki” come from?

soopeliturkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish Turkki, from Swedish durk, from English dork — A quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept...

soopeliturkki (Finnish): sable fur coat

Definitions

  1. sable fur coat

Ancestry of “soopeliturkki”, step by step

soopeliturkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Turkki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishTurkkiTurkish
2Swedishdurkship's floor
3EnglishdorkA quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept...

via Finnish soopeli

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsoopelisable, "Martes zibellina"
2Swedishsobel—
Every word from English dork →Every word from Swedish durk →Every word from Finnish Turkki →