Where does “valvonta” come from?

valvonta (Finnish) comes from Finnish valvoa, from Finnish -oa, from Proto-Finnic -odak, from Proto-Uralic -w-.

valvonta (Finnish): monitoring, surveillance; supervision; control

Definitions

  1. monitoring, surveillance; supervision; control

Ancestry of “valvonta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvalvoato stay up, stay awake; to oversee, supervise,...
2Finnish-oaForms frequentative verbs, primarily from nouns...
3Proto-Finnic-odakForms some verbs
4Proto-Uralic-w-

Words derived from “valvonta

Every word from Proto-Uralic -w-