Where does “tarusankari” come from?

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

tarusankari (Finnish): culture hero, mythical hero

Definitions

  1. culture hero, mythical hero

Ancestry of “tarusankari”, step by step

tarusankari 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 →