köken: Etymology tree Latin pārder. Middle High German pârbor. Old Polish para Polish para Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀ Proto-Slavic *-ъka Old Polish -ka Polish -ka Polish parka From para (“couple”) + -ka (diminutive suffix).
Uncertain. Perhaps an old cognate of the internationalism parka (“a sort of jacket”). If so, a loan from Tundra Nenets (see Proto-Samoyedic *pårkå) or, less likely, inherited from Proto-Uralic.