Where does “turkisisku” come from?

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

turkisisku (Finnish): attack on a fur farm

Definitions

  1. attack on a fur farm

Ancestry of “turkisisku”, step by step

turkisisku traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish turkis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishturkisfur
2FinnishTurkkiTurkish
3Swedishdurkship's floor
4EnglishdorkA quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept...

via Finnish isku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishiskuhit, blow; impact; attentat, attack, strike, raid
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
Every word from English dork →Every word from Swedish durk →Every word from Finnish Turkki →