Where does “turkistarhaus” come from?

turkistarhaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish tarhaus, from Finnish tarhata, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

turkistarhaus (Finnish): fur farming

Definitions

  1. fur farming

Ancestry of “turkistarhaus”, step by step

turkistarhaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tarhaus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtarhaus—
2FinnishtarhataTo ranch, farm
3Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish turkis

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