vitsa

[John Dingley]

By the way, "vitsa" is in Finnish and all
Balto-Finnic languages. The Finnish
etymological dictionary (Suomen sanojen
alkuperä, vol.3,p.465) considers it a
loanword from Germanic rather than from
Russian "vitsa". Seemingly it has no
connexion with the West Finnish "vihta"
(East Finnish "vasta") = банный веник.

John Dingley

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