Where does “käräjäkivi” come from?

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

käräjäkivi (Finnish): a stone in a Northern European Iron Age stone circle

Definitions

  1. a stone in a Northern European Iron Age stone circle

Ancestry of “käräjäkivi”, step by step

käräjäkivi 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 kivi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkivistone; a piece of stone which is larger than a...
2Latin-lanominative feminine singular of -lus; nominative...
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä
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