Where does “vainiopakko” come from?
vainiopakko (Finnish) comes from Finnish vainio, from Proto-Norse hwainiō, from Proto-Germanic hwainō, from Proto-Indo-European ḱweyn- — to make dirty, soil; filth; mud; to soil; mud;...
vainiopakko (Finnish): an obligation for peasants in an open-field system to work their strips of farmland at the same time and sow the same grain or fallow them all to prevent damage or harm to adjacent strips through e.g. trampling
Definitions
- an obligation for peasants in an open-field system to work their strips of farmland at the same time and sow the same grain or fallow them all to prevent damage or harm to adjacent strips through e.g. trampling
Ancestry of “vainiopakko”, step by step
vainiopakko traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.