Where does “Karhunvartija” come from?
Karhunvartija (Finnish) comes from Finnish vartija, from Finnish -ja, from Proto-Finnic -ja, from Proto-Uralic -ja.
Ancestry of “Karhunvartija”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | vartija | guard |
| 2 | Finnish | -ja | -er |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -ja | Forms agent nouns from verbs |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -ja | — |