Where does “vastaus” come from?

vastaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish vastata, from Proto-Finnic vastat'ak — to answer, to reply.

vastaus (Finnish): answer, reply, response

Definitions

  1. answer, reply, response

Ancestry of “vastaus”, step by step

vastaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vastata

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvastatato answer, to reply; to respond
2Proto-Finnicvastat'akto answer, to reply

via Finnish us

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishus-ing

Words derived from “vastaus”

Every word from Proto-Finnic vastat'ak →Every word from Finnish vastata →