Where does “hankaaja” come from?

hankaaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish hangata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

hankaaja (Finnish): rubber, scrubber one who rubs or scrubs

Definitions

  1. rubber, scrubber one who rubs or scrubs

Ancestry of “hankaaja”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhangatato rub; "~ vastaan:" to resist
2Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
3Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
4Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish hangata →
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