Where does “verovilja” come from?

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

verovilja (Finnish): tax grain grain used as a means of paying taxes

Definitions

  1. tax grain grain used as a means of paying taxes

Ancestry of “verovilja”, step by step

verovilja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vero

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishverotax
2Proto-Finnicveromeal

via Finnish Vilja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishViljagrain, cereal, corn type of grass cultivated for its edible grains
2Proto-Finnicviljagrain, cereal; abundance, plenty
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