Where does “viertokanki” come from?

viertokanki (Finnish) comes from Finnish kanki, from Proto-Finnic kanki — bar, lever.

viertokanki (Finnish): a type of wooden rod used in slash-and-burn farming to move or roll timber

Definitions

  1. a type of wooden rod used in slash-and-burn farming to move or roll timber

Ancestry of “viertokanki”, step by step

viertokanki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kanki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkankibar
2Proto-Finnickankibar, lever

via Finnish vierto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishviertorolling the act of rolling something
2Finnish-öFront vowel variant of -o
Every word from Proto-Finnic kanki →Every word from Finnish kanki →