Where does “voiveitsi” come from?

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

voiveitsi (Finnish): butter knife

Definitions

  1. butter knife

Ancestry of “voiveitsi”, step by step

voiveitsi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish voi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvoibutter; oh; third-person singular indicative...
2Proto-Finnicvoibutter; oh, woe
3Proto-Finno-Ugricwajefat

via Finnish veitsi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishveitsiknife
2Proto-Finnicveicciknife
3Proto-Finno-Ugricwäŋćɜ—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric waje →Every word from Proto-Finnic voi →Every word from Finnish voi →