What are the origins of the Finnish military ranks which seem to have strange vowels compared to the source languages?
Luutnantti: seems to be mix of English lieutenant <luutenant> and German Leutnant <loitnant> or Swedish löjtnant (loss of the e between tn)
Eversti: Swedish överste <öövärste>: Change of long öö to short e. The är->er could be a spelling based pronunciation. Oberst in German.
Luutnantti: seems to be mix of English lieutenant <luutenant> and German Leutnant <loitnant> or Swedish löjtnant (loss of the e between tn)
Eversti: Swedish överste <öövärste>: Change of long öö to short e. The är->er could be a spelling based pronunciation. Oberst in German.