Where does “kirjava” come from?

kirjava (Finnish) comes from Finnish -va, from Proto-Finnic -pa, from Proto-Uralic -pa.

kirjava (Finnish): colorful, colored, mottled, iridescent,...

Definitions

  1. colorful, colored, mottled, iridescent,...

Ancestry of “kirjava”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-vaForms the present active participle of a verb,...
2Proto-Finnic-pa-ing; forms the present participle, which is...
3Proto-Uralic-pa—

Words derived from “kirjava”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -pa →Every word from Proto-Finnic -pa →Every word from Finnish -va →