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There's always a British tourist (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

less to do with the original magical forces and more about determination

So... do you imagine that Finns still use the connotation from thousands of years ago?

It means the same thing here, more or less. I'm just talking about where the word comes from, originally. If you just go on the street and start asking / explaining about some magical connotations to regular words, people would be afraid of you, lol.

Finnish wiktionary doesn't know it either. It's only when you look at proto-Finnic that you'll get these as connotations. The language from which both of our languages are from.

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The sense "power, strength" now exists only in some compounds and derived words, such as väkivalta (“violence”), väkijuoma (“alcoholic beverage”), väkevä (“strong”), and väkisin (“forcefully”). A transitional sense exists in e.g. sotaväki, which can be thought to mean either military power or the people in the army; such words may have contributed to the semantic change