Where does “vaihtoauto” come from?

vaihtoauto (Finnish) comes from Finnish auto, from Finnish automobiili, from French automobile, from French auto-, from Ancient Greek αὐτο-, from Ancient Greek αὐτός, from Proto-Indo-European h₂ew, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰe — Postpositional intensifying particle: indeed, at any rate, in fact.

vaihtoauto (Finnish): used car, traded car

Definitions

  1. used car, traded car

Ancestry of “vaihtoauto”, step by step

vaihtoauto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish auto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishautocar, automobile
2Finnishautomobiiliautomobile, car
3Frenchautomobileautomotive; automobile
4Frenchauto-auto- regarding oneself
5Ancient Greekαὐτο-self-
6Ancient Greekαὐτόςαὐτή f, αὐτό n; "first/second declension";...
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂ewaway from, off; again
8Proto-Indo-EuropeanǵʰePostpositional intensifying particle: indeed, at any rate, in fact

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...

Words derived from “vaihtoauto”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰe →Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₂ew →Every word from Ancient Greek αὐτός →