Where does “viisiviikkoinen” come from?

viisiviikkoinen (Finnish) comes from Finnish viisi, from Proto-Finnic viici, from Proto-Uralic witte — five; ten.

viisiviikkoinen (Finnish): five-week(-long)

Definitions

  1. five-week(-long)

Ancestry of “viisiviikkoinen”, step by step

viisiviikkoinen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish viisi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishviisifive
2Proto-Finnicviicifive
3Proto-Uralicwittefive; ten

via Finnish viikko

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishviikkoweek
2Proto-Germanicwikǭsequence; week
3Proto-Indo-Europeanweyg-to bend, wind, turn, yield; to wind, bend; to...
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