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From a Sami language, compare Proto-Samic*vuokē(“way, manner, custom”) and Northern Samivuohki. Originally a northern Finnish dialectal word meaning "way, manner, shape, form". In this sense, the word was first attested in Gustaf Erik Eurén: Suomalais-ruotsalainen sanakirja : Finsk-swensk ordbok. ("Finnish-Swedish Dictionary", 1860). In Elias Lönnrot's Finnish-Swedish dictionary (Elias Lönnrot: Suomalais-ruotsalainen sanakirja ("Finnish-Swedish Dictionary", 1866-1880)), the volume published in 1880 contains vuoka with the translation "form, sätt", and the example "siihen vuokaan tehty" is given.
The word in its modern sense is a ghost word, stemming from a misinterpretation. Later in the 1880s, Swedish form(“form, shape, way”) found in the aforementioned dictionary was misunderstood as form(“form, mold, tin”), leading to the new sense (first attested in 1885) which was popularized over the next two decades.
The first is the proper declension and used in the written language, while the second is somewhat nonstandard and used primarily in the spoken language. A similar shift is also taking place in ruoka.
“vuoka”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04