Where does “vasemmistolehti” come from?

vasemmistolehti (Finnish) comes from Finnish vasemmisto, from Finnish -stö — Front vowel variant of -sto.

vasemmistolehti (Finnish): left-wing newspaper, left-wing magazine

Definitions

  1. left-wing newspaper, left-wing magazine

Ancestry of “vasemmistolehti”, step by step

vasemmistolehti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vasemmisto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishvasemmistoThe left; leftist
2Finnish-stöFront vowel variant of -sto

via Finnish Lehti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishLehtileaf part of a plant
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*lehti—
Every word from Finnish -stö →Every word from Finnish vasemmisto →