Where does “verkonkives” come from?

verkonkives (Finnish) comes from Finnish verkko, from Proto-Finnic verkko, from Proto-Germanic werką, from Proto-Indo-European wérǵom, from Proto-Indo-European werǵ- — to make.

verkonkives (Finnish): a traditional weight used with fishnets, basically a stone inside birchbark

Definitions

  1. a traditional weight used with fishnets, basically a stone inside birchbark

Ancestry of “verkonkives”, step by step

verkonkives traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish verkko

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishverkkonet; network; mesh
2Proto-Finnicverkkonet, fishing net
3Proto-Germanicwerkąwork
4Proto-Indo-Europeanwérǵomwork
5Proto-Indo-Europeanwerǵ-to make

via Finnish kives

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkivestesticle; A stone inside birch bark, used as...
2Finnish-sForms ordinal numbers from cardinal numbers, or...
3Proto-Finnic-nciForms ordinal numbers from the corresponding...
4Proto-Uralic-mte—
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