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Where does “vaikkapa” come from?
vaikkapa (Finnish) comes from Finnish -pä, from Finnish -vä — Front vowel variant of -va.
Ancestry of “vaikkapa”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Finnish
-pä
Front vowel variant of -pa
2
Finnish
-vä
Front vowel variant of -va
Every word from Finnish -vä →
Every word from Finnish -pä →