Where does “lomaviikko” come from?

lomaviikko (Finnish) comes from Finnish loma, from Proto-Finnic loma, from Proto-Finno-Permic loma — gap.

lomaviikko (Finnish): week of holiday/vacation, week of leave, week off

Definitions

  1. week of holiday/vacation, week of leave, week off

Ancestry of “lomaviikko”, step by step

lomaviikko traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish loma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlomaholiday, vacation; furlough; gap
2Proto-Finniclomagap
3Proto-Finno-Permiclomagap

via Finnish viikko

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishviikkoweek
2Proto-Germanicwikǭsequence; week
3Proto-Indo-Europeanweyg-to bend, wind, turn, yield; to wind, bend; to...
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