Where does “eläjä” come from?

eläjä (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ja, from Proto-Finnic -ja, from Proto-Uralic -ja — Forms the present participle.

eläjä (Finnish): liver; creature

Definitions

  1. liver; creature

Ancestry of “eläjä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ja-er
2Proto-Finnic-jaForms agent nouns from verbs
3Proto-Uralic-jaForms the present participle

Words derived from “eläjä”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -ja →Every word from Finnish -ja →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ja →