Where does “käräjäväki” come from?

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

käräjäväki (Finnish): people in a court or thing or in käräjäoikeus

Definitions

  1. people in a court or thing or in käräjäoikeus

Ancestry of “käräjäväki”, step by step

käräjäväki 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 väki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishväkipeople, crowd; power, strength, force
2Icelandicvakihormone
3Arabicوَاقِعhappening, occurring; falling
4Arabicالنَّسْر الوَاقِعfalling eagle
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä