Where does “sõnāvīļa” come from?

sõnāvīļa (Livonian) comes from Livonian sõnā, from Proto-Finnic sana — word.

sõnāvīļa (Livonian): vocabulary, lexicon

Definitions

  1. vocabulary, lexicon

Ancestry of “sõnāvīļa”, step by step

sõnāvīļa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Livonian sõnā

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Livoniansõnāword
2Proto-Finnicsanaword

via Livonian vīļa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Livonianvīļacrop plant grown for food
Every word from Proto-Finnic sanaEvery word from Livonian sõnā