Where does “vapaa-alue” come from?

vapaa-alue (Finnish) comes from Finnish vapaa, from Finnish vapada, from Old East Slavic свободь, from Proto-Slavic svoboda, from Proto-Slavic -oda.

vapaa-alue (Finnish): free zone region where goods may be stored and handled without customs processing

Definitions

  1. free zone region where goods may be stored and handled without customs processing

Ancestry of “vapaa-alue”, step by step

vapaa-alue traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vapaa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvapaafree; free, off; spare, free
2Finnishvapada
3Old East Slavicсвободьfree
4Proto-Slavicsvobodafreedom
5Proto-Slavic-oda

via Finnish alue

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishaluearea; region; oblast
2Proto-Austronesianqaluʀto flow
3Proto-Austronesian-luʀ
Every word from Proto-Slavic -oda