Where does “vaihto-oppilas” come from?

vaihto-oppilas (Finnish) comes from Finnish oppilas, from Finnish -las, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

vaihto-oppilas (Finnish): exchange student

Definitions

  1. exchange student

Ancestry of “vaihto-oppilas”, step by step

vaihto-oppilas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish oppilas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishoppilaspupil
2Finnish-lasForms nouns used to describe people; Forms...
3Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
4Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
5Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
6Proto-Finno-Ugric-s

via Finnish vaihto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvaihtoexchange; swap; shift key
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...
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -sEvery word from Finnish -läEvery word from Finnish -las