Where does “turkistarhaaja” come from?
turkistarhaaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish tarhaaja, from Finnish tarhata, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.
turkistarhaaja (Finnish): fur farmer
Ancestry of “turkistarhaaja”, step by step
turkistarhaaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tarhaaja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tarhaaja | ranching, farming |
| 2 | Finnish | tarhata | To ranch, farm |
| 3 | Finnish | -tä | Front vowel variant of -ta |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ta | Partitive ending |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -tä | from |
via Finnish turkis
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | turkis | fur |
| 2 | Finnish | Turkki | Turkish |
| 3 | Swedish | durk | ship's floor |
| 4 | English | dork | A quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept... |