Where does “lehtivalokuvaaja” come from?

lehtivalokuvaaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish valokuvaaja, from Finnish kuvaaja, from Finnish jä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ja, from Proto-Germanic jahw, from Proto-Germanic -hw, from Proto-Germanic -hwe, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.

lehtivalokuvaaja (Finnish): press photographer

Definitions

  1. press photographer

Ancestry of “lehtivalokuvaaja”, step by step

lehtivalokuvaaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish valokuvaaja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvalokuvaajaphotographer
2Finnishkuvaajaphotographer; cinematographer, cameraman; graph,...
3Finnishice
4Proto-Finno-Ugric*ja
5Proto-Germanicjahwand, also
6Proto-Germanic-hwand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
7Proto-Germanic-hwe
8Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives

via Finnish Lehti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishLehtileaf part of a plant
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*lehti
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe