Where does “raapevesi” come from?
raapevesi (Finnish) comes from Finnish raape, from Finnish raapia, from Finnish -ia, from Proto-Finnic -idak, from Proto-Uralic -j-.
raapevesi (Finnish): ink remover fluid
Ancestry of “raapevesi”, step by step
raapevesi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish raape
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | raape | The material loosened by scratching |
| 2 | Finnish | raapia | To scratch, scrape |
| 3 | Finnish | -ia | Forms primarily transitive verbs describing... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -idak | applicative suffix |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -j- | — |
via Finnish vesi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vesi | water; lake; rheum |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | veci | water |
| 3 | Arabic | وعاء | vessel, container, bowl |