Where does “verotaakka” come from?

verotaakka (Finnish) comes from Finnish vero, from Proto-Finnic vero — meal.

verotaakka (Finnish): tax burden

Definitions

  1. tax burden

Ancestry of “verotaakka”, step by step

verotaakka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vero

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishverotax
2Proto-Finnicveromeal

via Finnish taakka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtaakkaburden; pack
2Proto-Finnic*takka(hay) load, burden
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