Where does “keilaaja” come from?

keilaaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish keilata, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

keilaaja (Finnish): A bowler someone engaged in the sport of bowling

Definitions

  1. A bowler someone engaged in the sport of bowling

Ancestry of “keilaaja”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkeilatato bowl; to cast light; to scan
2Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
3Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
4Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -tä →Every word from Finnish keilata →