Where does “rehvakas” come from?

rehvakas (Finnish) comes from Finnish kas, from Finnish katso!, from Finnish katsoa, from Proto-Finnic kaccodak, from Proto-Germanic gātijaną.

rehvakas (Finnish): boastful, pretentious, swaggering

Definitions

  1. boastful, pretentious, swaggering

Ancestry of “rehvakas”, step by step

rehvakas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkaslook!, oh!, my!, behold!; look
2Finnishkatso!look!
3Finnishkatsoato look, have a look, take a look; to watch; to...
4Proto-Finnickaccodakto look
5Proto-Germanicgātijaną—

via Finnish rehevä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrehevälush, exuberant, luxuriant; eutrophic; buxom
2Finnishrehufodder, animal feed
3Proto-Finnicrehugrass

Words derived from “rehvakas”

Every word from Proto-Germanic gātijaną →Every word from Proto-Finnic kaccodak →Every word from Finnish katsoa →