Where does “vaihdemies” come from?

vaihdemies (Finnish) comes from Finnish vaihde, from Finnish vaihtaa, from Proto-Finnic vaihtadak, from Proto-Finnic -tadak, from Proto-Uralic -ta- — Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...

vaihdemies (Finnish): switchman, switch operator

Definitions

  1. switchman, switch operator

Ancestry of “vaihdemies”, step by step

vaihdemies traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vaihde

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvaihdegear; switch; turn
2Finnishvaihtaato change, replace; to exchange, switch; to swap
3Proto-Finnicvaihtadakto change
4Proto-Finnic-tadakForms verbs from both nominal and verbal stems
5Proto-Uralic-ta-Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...

via Finnish mies

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmiesman; husband
2Proto-Finnicmeesman, male; husband
3Proto-Finnicmeexes—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ta- →Every word from Proto-Finnic -tadak →Every word from Proto-Finnic vaihtadak →