Where does “asuttaja” come from?

asuttaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish asuttaa, from Finnish asua, from Proto-Finnic asudak, from Proto-Uralic ëśew-, from Proto-Uralic ëśe- — to exist, be located.

asuttaja (Finnish): settler, colonizer

Definitions

  1. settler, colonizer

Ancestry of “asuttaja”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishasuttaato inhabit, people, populate, settle,...
2Finnishasuato live, reside, dwell; Partitive singular form...
3Proto-Finnicasudakto live (somewhere), dwell, reside
4Proto-Uralicëśew-to camp, remain
5Proto-Uralicëśe-to exist, be located
Every word from Proto-Uralic ëśe- →Every word from Proto-Uralic ëśew- →Every word from Proto-Finnic asudak →