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Where does “vaihdos” come from?

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

vaihdos (Finnish): change, transition, transposition

Definitions

  1. change, transition, transposition

Ancestry of “vaihdos”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvaihtaato change, replace; to exchange, switch; to swap
2Proto-Finnicvaihtadakto change
3Proto-Finnic-tadak—
4Proto-Uralic-ta-Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...
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