Where does “vaikeatajuinen” come from?

vaikeatajuinen (Finnish) comes from Finnish vaikea, from Finnish vaiva, from Proto-Finnic vaiva, from Proto-Germanic waiwô, from Proto-Indo-European wai — oh!; woe!.

vaikeatajuinen (Finnish): abstruse difficult to understand or comprehend

Definitions

  1. abstruse difficult to understand or comprehend

Ancestry of “vaikeatajuinen”, step by step

vaikeatajuinen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vaikea

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishvaikeaDifficult, hard
2Finnishvaivabother, inconvenience; ailment
3Proto-Finnicvaivabother, inconvenience; pain, illness, torment
4Proto-Germanicwaiwôwoe, grief, misery; evil, wickedness, malice
5Proto-Indo-Europeanwaioh!; woe!

via Finnish taju

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtajuconsciousness; sense
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns

Words derived from “vaikeatajuinen”

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