Where does “vaihtoehtolehti” come from?

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

vaihtoehtolehti (Finnish): alternative magazine

Definitions

  1. alternative magazine

Ancestry of “vaihtoehtolehti”, step by step

vaihtoehtolehti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vaihtoehto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvaihtoehtoalternative, option
2Finnishvaihtoexchange; swap; shift key
3Finnishvaihtaato change, replace; to exchange, switch; to swap
4Proto-Finnicvaihtadakto change
5Proto-Finnic-tadakForms verbs from both nominal and verbal stems
6Proto-Uralic-ta-Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...

via Finnish Lehti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishLehtileaf part of a plant
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*lehti
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ta-Every word from Proto-Finnic -tadakEvery word from Proto-Finnic vaihtadak