Where does “maidonantaja” come from?

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

maidonantaja (Finnish): cow when seen as a source of milk

Definitions

  1. cow when seen as a source of milk

Ancestry of “maidonantaja”, step by step

maidonantaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish antaja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishantajagiver
2Finnish-ja-er
3Proto-Finnic-jaForms agent nouns from verbs
4Proto-Uralic-jaForms the present participle

via Finnish maito

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmaitomilk; milk, non-dairy milk, plant milk
2Proto-Finnicmaitomilk
3Proto-Uralicmajδ̕ɜ—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ja →Every word from Finnish -ja →Every word from Finnish antaja →