Where does “vapaavaihde” come from?
vapaavaihde (Finnish) comes from Finnish vapaa, from Finnish vapada, from Old East Slavic свободь, from Proto-Slavic svoboda, from Proto-Slavic -oda.
vapaavaihde (Finnish): neutral gear, neutral
Ancestry of “vapaavaihde”, step by step
vapaavaihde 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 vaihde
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vaihde | gear; switch; turn |
| 2 | Finnish | vaihtaa | to change, replace; to exchange, switch; to swap |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | vaihtadak | to change |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -tadak | Forms verbs from both nominal and verbal stems |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -ta- | Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs... |