Where does “vierustoveri” come from?
vierustoveri (Finnish) comes from Finnish toveri, from Russian това́рищ, from Old East Slavic товарищь, from Proto-Slavic tovarišь, from Proto-Slavic tovarъ, from Proto-Turkic *tabar — livestock, cattle.
Ancestry of “vierustoveri”, step by step
vierustoveri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.