Where does “vaihtotalous” come from?
vaihtotalous (Finnish) comes from Finnish talous, from Finnish talo, from Ludian taloi, from Proto-Finnic talo, from Proto-Baltic talˀa-.
vaihtotalous (Finnish): barter economy model of economic exchange which is based on exchanging goods for goods instead of goods for money
Definitions
- barter economy model of economic exchange which is based on exchanging goods for goods instead of goods for money
Ancestry of “vaihtotalous”, step by step
vaihtotalous traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish talous
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | talous | economy; finance; a system that maintains... |
| 2 | Finnish | talo | house; building; farm, homestead |
| 3 | Ludian | taloi | farm; house |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | talo | farm, farmstead |
| 5 | Proto-Baltic | talˀa- | — |
via Finnish vaihto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vaihto | exchange; swap; shift key |
| 2 | Finnish | vaihtaa | to change, replace; to exchange, switch; to swap |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | vaihtadak | to change |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -tadak | Forms verbs from both nominal and verbal stems |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -ta- | Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs... |