The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*funkô
- Old High German · derived fromfunko
- Middle High German · derived fromvunke
- Yiddish · derived fromפֿינקל“spark”
- German · borrowed fromFinkel
- English todayFinkel
Borrowed from German Finkel, from Yiddish פֿינקל (finkl, “spark”), from Middle High German vunke, from Old High German funko, from Proto-Germanic *funkô.
Words from the same roots
Old High Germanfunko all →
Finkelstein
Proto-Germanic*funkô all →
funk
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.