Where does “villiporkkana” come from?

villiporkkana (Finnish) comes from Finnish villi, from Old Swedish viller.

villiporkkana (Finnish): wild carrot, bird's nest, bishop's face, Queen Anne's lace

Definitions

  1. wild carrot, bird's nest, bishop's face, Queen Anne's lace

Ancestry of “villiporkkana”, step by step

villiporkkana traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish villi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvilliwild; savage; feral
2Old Swedishviller—

via Finnish porkkana

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishporkkanacarrot; Essive singular form of porkka
2Russianборканcarrot
Every word from Old Swedish viller →