Where does “tunku” come from?

tunku (Finnish) comes from Finnish tunkea, from Proto-Finnic tunkedak — to cram.

tunku (Finnish): crowd, crush

Definitions

  1. crowd, crush

Ancestry of “tunku”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtunkeato cram, squeeze
2Proto-Finnictunkedakto cram
Every word from Proto-Finnic tunkedak →Every word from Finnish tunkea →