Where does “vaikeaymmärteinen” come from?
vaikeaymmärteinen (Finnish) comes from Finnish vaikea, from Finnish vaiva, from Proto-Finnic vaiva, from Proto-Germanic waiwô, from Proto-Indo-European wai — oh!; woe!.
vaikeaymmärteinen (Finnish): difficult to understand
Definitions
- difficult to understand
Ancestry of “vaikeaymmärteinen”, step by step
vaikeaymmärteinen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish vaikea
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vaikea | Difficult, hard |
| 2 | Finnish | vaiva | bother, inconvenience; ailment |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | vaiva | bother, inconvenience; pain, illness, torment |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | waiwô | woe, grief, misery; evil, wickedness, malice |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | wai | oh!; woe! |
via Finnish ymmärtää
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ymmärtää | to understand; to identify with, relate to,... |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | ümbärtädäk | to understand |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -tadak | Forms verbs from both nominal and verbal stems |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -ta- | Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs... |