Where does “leimavero” come from?

leimavero (Finnish) comes from Finnish vero, from Proto-Finnic vero — meal.

leimavero (Finnish): stamp duty

Definitions

  1. stamp duty

Ancestry of “leimavero”, step by step

leimavero traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vero

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishverotax
2Proto-Finnicveromeal

via Finnish leima

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishleimastamp; label, mark; stain, taint, stigma
2Russianклеймо́brand, stamp, identification mark
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