Where does “ahvenvita” come from?

ahvenvita (Finnish) comes from Finnish ahven, from Proto-Finnic ahven — perch.

ahvenvita (Finnish): clasping-leaf pondweed, perfoliate pondweed,...

Definitions

  1. clasping-leaf pondweed, perfoliate pondweed,...

Ancestry of “ahvenvita”, step by step

ahvenvita traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish ahven

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishahvenEuropean perch, "Perca fluviatilis"; perch;...
2Proto-Finnicahvenperch

via Finnish vita

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvitapondweed
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