Where does “vapautusrintama” come from?

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

vapautusrintama (Finnish): liberation front

Definitions

  1. liberation front

Ancestry of “vapautusrintama”, step by step

vapautusrintama traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vapautus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvapautusliberation; emancipation; exemption
2FinnishvapauttaaTo free/loose, let loose/go, loose, liberate,...
3Finnishvapaafree; free, off; spare, free
4Finnishvapada
5Old East Slavicсвободьfree
6Proto-Slavicsvobodafreedom
7Proto-Slavic-oda

via Finnish rintama

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrintamafront, battlefront; front; theater
2Finnishrintabreast; chest, especially the front side of it
3Finnish-mäFront vowel variant of -ma
Every word from Proto-Slavic -oda
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