Where does “torkkupeitto” come from?

torkkupeitto (Finnish) comes from Finnish peitto, from Finnish peittää, from Proto-Finnic peittädäk, from Proto-Finnic pej-, from Proto-Uralic *pälkä — thumb.

torkkupeitto (Finnish): nap blanket, day blanket

Definitions

  1. nap blanket, day blanket

Ancestry of “torkkupeitto”, step by step

torkkupeitto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish peitto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpeittoblanket; cover, coverage
2Finnishpeittääto cover
3Proto-Finnicpeittädäkto cover; to hide, to conceal
4Proto-Finnicpej-—
5Proto-Uralic*pälkäthumb

via Finnish torkku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtorkkunap, snooze; sleepy
2Finnishtorkkuato snooze, doze, drowse
3Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
4Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs
Every word from Proto-Uralic *pälkä →Every word from Proto-Finnic pej- →Every word from Proto-Finnic peittädäk →