köken: Uncertain. First attested in 1937. * Bańkowski suggests the word has origins in prison slang with an original meaning of "stolen goods", particularly watches, in reference to a criminal caught with "corpus delicti", with a semantic shift to any illicit material, and ultimately to illegal alcohol. * Horbacz derives it from imbir with contamination with the word school slang word біба (biba,…
köken: The term is believed to derive from a French wine, Pontet-Canet, which was popular among the Finnish bourgeoisie in the 1800s. When the common people distilled their own drink, they gave it a name that sounds roughly the same. Alternatively possibly from Pontac, with + -kka.