Where does “turkistarhuri” come from?

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

turkistarhuri (Finnish): Synonym of turkistarhaaja

Definitions

  1. Synonym of turkistarhaaja

Ancestry of “turkistarhuri”, step by step

turkistarhuri 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 tarhuri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishtarhuriSynonym of puutarhuri
2Finnishtarhacorral; yard; garden, orchard
3Proto-Finnictarhagarden; enclosure
Every word from English dork →Every word from Swedish durk →Every word from Finnish Turkki →