Where does “vuotakenkä” come from?

vuotakenkä (Finnish) comes from Finnish vuota, from Proto-Finnic voota, from Proto-Finnic vootadak, from Proto-Finnic voo, from Proto-Uralic uwa- — to flow.

vuotakenkä (Finnish): a shoe made of hide or pelt

Definitions

  1. a shoe made of hide or pelt

Ancestry of “vuotakenkä”, step by step

vuotakenkä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vuota

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvuotahide, pelt; Partitive singular form of vuo
2Proto-Finnicvootahide, pelt
3Proto-Finnicvootadakto flow; to trickle, to seep; to leak
4Proto-Finnicvooflow
5Proto-Uralicuwa-to flow

via Finnish kenkä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkenkäshoe; boot; boot; in the idiomatic expression...
2Proto-Finnickenkäshoe
Every word from Proto-Uralic uwa- →Every word from Proto-Finnic voo →Every word from Proto-Finnic vootadak →