Where does “svešvaloda” come from?
svešvaloda (Latvian) comes from Latvian valoda, from Proto-Indo-European wēl-.
svešvaloda (Latvian): foreign language
Ancestry of “svešvaloda”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latvian | valoda | language |
| 2 | Proto-Indo-European | wēl- | — |