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Where does “onnettomuustutkija” come from?

onnettomuustutkija (Finnish) comes from Finnish tutkija, from Finnish tutkia, from Finnish -ia, from Proto-Finnic -idak, from Proto-Uralic -j-.

onnettomuustutkija (Finnish): accident investigator

Definitions

  1. accident investigator

Ancestry of “onnettomuustutkija”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtutkijaresearcher
2Finnishtutkiato examine, investigate; to research; Partitive...
3Finnish-iaForms primarily transitive verbs describing...
4Proto-Finnic-idakapplicative suffix
5Proto-Uralic-j-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -j- →