Where does “viiruhankko” come from?

viiruhankko (Finnish) comes from Finnish viiru — streak, scratch.

viiruhankko (Finnish): great stripe-faced bat, stripe-faced vampire bat, Vampyrodes caraccioli

Definitions

  1. great stripe-faced bat, stripe-faced vampire bat, Vampyrodes caraccioli

Ancestry of “viiruhankko”, step by step

viiruhankko traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish viiru

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishviirustreak, scratch

via Finnish hankko

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhankkobat of the subfamily Stenodermatinae
Every word from Finnish viiru →