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Where does “näkijä” come from?

näkijä (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ja, from Proto-Finnic -ja, from Proto-Uralic -ja.

näkijä (Finnish): seer

Definitions

  1. seer

Ancestry of “näkijä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ja-er
2Proto-Finnic-jaForms agent nouns from verbs
3Proto-Uralic-ja—

Words derived from “näkijä”

  • silminnäkijä
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ja →