From Proto-Finnic [Term?] (compare Karelian ahkivo), from Proto-Uralic *aškɜ (compare Northern Khanty [script needed] (oχəl)). The narrow distribution in just northern Finnish dialects and Karelian could also imply a Sami intermediate, but no related Sami words appear to exist (akio, akia are apparent ghost words), and etymological sources generally consider this an inherited word. Has also been proposed to derive from Germanic, e.g. Proto-Norse *ᚨᚲᛃᛟ (*akjō), corresponding to Swedish äcka, Icelandic ekja (“driving, fording”), to the root ak (“drive, ford, ride”) (Swedish åk), or to Proto-Norse *ᚨᛋᚲᛁᛃᛟ (*askijō) (compare Old Norse eskja, “(ashwood) box”), but LÄGLOS rejects a Germanic origin.