Where does “lyhennysvapaa” come from?

lyhennysvapaa (Finnish) comes from Finnish lyhennys, from Finnish lyhentää, from Finnish lyhetä, from Finnish -etä, from Proto-Finnic -t'ak, from Proto-Uralic -ta- — Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...

lyhennysvapaa (Finnish): grace period, instalment-free period, interest-only period time period of a loan during which the borrower is only charged the interest

Definitions

  1. grace period, instalment-free period, interest-only period time period of a loan during which the borrower is only charged the interest

Ancestry of “lyhennysvapaa”, step by step

lyhennysvapaa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lyhennys

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlyhennysshortening; abbreviation; payment
2Finnishlyhentääto shorten; to abbreviate; to reduce or pay back...
3FinnishlyhetäTo shorten, to become shorter
4Finnish-etäFront vowel variant of -eta
5Proto-Finnic-t'akForms verbs from nominal stems, generally with a causative, factitive or instrumental meaning
6Proto-Uralic-ta-Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...

via Finnish vapaa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvapaafree; free, off; spare, free
2Finnishvapada
3Old East Slavicсвободьfree
4Proto-Slavicsvobodafreedom
5Proto-Slavic-oda
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ta-