Where does “käräjäkirjuri” come from?

käräjäkirjuri (Finnish) comes from Finnish käräjät, from Finnish kerätä, from Finnish -ata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

käräjäkirjuri (Finnish): a kind of scribe or secretary working for a district court

Definitions

  1. a kind of scribe or secretary working for a district court

Ancestry of “käräjäkirjuri”, step by step

käräjäkirjuri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish käräjät

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkäräjätcourt; thing, Thing
2Finnishkerätäto collect, gather, accumulate; to pick
3Finnish-ataDerives verbs
4Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
5Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
6Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish kirjuri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkirjuribookkeeper; scribe; scorekeeper
2Finnishkirjatato book, log, register; to register
3Finnishkirjabook; quire
4Proto-Finnickirjadecoration, carving, pattern
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →