Where does “käskijä” come from?

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

käskijä (Finnish): agent noun of käskeä: commander, one who commands

Definitions

  1. agent noun of käskeä: commander, one who commands

Ancestry of “käskijä”, step by step

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