Where does “vaihto” come from?
vaihto (Karelian) comes from Finnish vaihtua, from Finnish vaihtaa, from Proto-Finnic vaihtadak, from Proto-Finnic -tadak, from Proto-Uralic -ta- — Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...
vaihto (Karelian): change
Definitions
- change
Ancestry of “vaihto”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vaihtua | to become replaced, swapped, exchanged or... |
| 2 | Finnish | vaihtaa | to change, replace; to exchange, switch; to swap |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | vaihtadak | to change |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -tadak | Forms verbs from both nominal and verbal stems |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -ta- | Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs... |