Where does “muuttovoittaja” come from?

muuttovoittaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish voittaja, 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.

muuttovoittaja (Finnish): a country, state, region, etc. that gains more people moving in than it loses moving out

Definitions

  1. a country, state, region, etc. that gains more people moving in than it loses moving out

Ancestry of “muuttovoittaja”, step by step

muuttovoittaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish voittaja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvoittajawinner, victor
2Finnishjäice
3Proto-Finno-Ugric*ja—
4Proto-Germanicjahwand, also
5Proto-Germanic-hwand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
6Proto-Germanic-hwe—
7Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives

via Finnish muutto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmuuttomove, relocation; migration
2Finnishmuuttaato modify, change, alter; to transform,...
3Finnish-elläFront vowel variant of -ella
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe →Every word from Proto-Germanic -hw →Every word from Proto-Germanic jahw →
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