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Where does “vanda” come from?

vanda (Icelandic) comes from Proto-Germanic wandōną, from Proto-Indo-European wendʰ- — to wind, to turn.

vanda (Icelandic): to do something carefully, to take pains over...

Definitions

  1. to do something carefully, to take pains over...

Ancestry of “vanda”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicwandōnąto turn aside; veer; change
2Proto-Indo-Europeanwendʰ-to wind, to turn

Words derived from “vanda”

  • vandaður
  • vandi
  • vandamál
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