Where does “tilkerauta” come from?

tilkerauta (Finnish) comes from Finnish rauta, from Proto-Finnic rauta — iron.

tilkerauta (Finnish): caulking iron

Definitions

  1. caulking iron

Ancestry of “tilkerauta”, step by step

tilkerauta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish rauta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrautairon; shackles, irons; act of getting or state of...
2Proto-Finnicrautairon

via Finnish tilke

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtilkestuffing, caulking
2Finnishtilkitäto seal, stuff
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