Where does “etananvauhti” come from?

etananvauhti (Finnish) comes from Finnish etana, from Finnish etä-, from Proto-Finnic etä, from Proto-Finno-Permic ečkä.

etananvauhti (Finnish): snail's pace

Definitions

  1. snail's pace

Ancestry of “etananvauhti”, step by step

etananvauhti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish etana

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishetanaslug; snail; snail, sluggard
2Finnishetä-distant, remote, long-distance, far-off
3Proto-Finnicetäfar, distant
4Proto-Finno-Permicečkä—

via Finnish vauhti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvauhtispeed, velocity, pace; momentum; speed
Every word from Proto-Finno-Permic ečkä →Every word from Finnish etä- →Every word from Finnish etana →
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