Where does “voi” come from?

voi (Finnish) comes from Proto-Finnic voi, from Proto-Finno-Ugric waje — fat.

voi (Finnish): butter; oh; third-person singular indicative...

Definitions

  1. butter; oh; third-person singular indicative...

Ancestry of “voi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finnicvoibutter; oh, woe
2Proto-Finno-Ugricwajefat

Words derived from “voi”

Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric waje →Every word from Proto-Finnic voi →