Where does “vaihdevuodet” come from?

vaihdevuodet (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...

vaihdevuodet (Finnish): menopause

Definitions

  1. menopause

Ancestry of “vaihdevuodet”, step by step

vaihdevuodet 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 vuosi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvuosiyear
2Proto-Finnicvoociyear
3Proto-Finnicoote—
4Proto-Uralicëdeyear

Words derived from “vaihdevuodet”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -ta- →Every word from Proto-Finnic -tadak →Every word from Proto-Finnic vaihtadak →