Where does “vapaapaini” come from?
vapaapaini (Finnish) comes from Finnish vapaa, from Finnish vapada, from Old East Slavic свободь, from Proto-Slavic svoboda, from Proto-Slavic -oda.
vapaapaini (Finnish): freestyle
Ancestry of “vapaapaini”, step by step
vapaapaini traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish vapaa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vapaa | free; free, off; spare, free |
| 2 | Finnish | vapada | — |
| 3 | Old East Slavic | свободь | free |
| 4 | Proto-Slavic | svoboda | freedom |
| 5 | Proto-Slavic | -oda | — |
via Finnish paini
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | paini | wrestling; Third-person singular indicative past... |
| 2 | Finnish | painia | To wrestle; Partitive plural form of paini |
| 3 | Finnish | painaa | to push, press; to print; to weigh |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | painadak | to push, to press |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | pajńa- | press |