Where does “vapaakauppa-alue” come from?

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

vapaakauppa-alue (Finnish): free trade area

Definitions

  1. free trade area

Ancestry of “vapaakauppa-alue”, step by step

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

via Finnish vapaakauppa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvapaakauppafree trade
2Finnishvapaafree; free, off; spare, free
3Finnishvapada—
4Old East Slavicсвободьfree
5Proto-Slavicsvobodafreedom
6Proto-Slavic-oda—

via Finnish alue

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishaluearea; region; oblast
2Proto-Austronesianqaluʀto flow
3Proto-Austronesian-luʀ—
Every word from Proto-Slavic -oda →Every word from Proto-Slavic svoboda →Every word from Old East Slavic свободь →