vapaa

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • free not imprisoned or enslaved
  • free unconstrained
  • free released
  • free, off without obligations
  • spare, free not filled with activity or work
  • vacant
  • unmarried, single
  • free-range of, pertaining to, or produced by animals that are allowed to roam freely, rather than being confined indoors
  • (linear algebra) linearly independent of a set of vectors

Etymology

Borrowed from Old East Slavic свободь (free) derived from Proto-Slavic *svoboda (freedom).

Origin

Proto-Slavic

*svoboda

Gloss

freedom

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