Where does “ostaja” come from?

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

ostaja (Finnish): A buyer

Definitions

  1. A buyer

Ancestry of “ostaja”, step by step

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

Words derived from “ostaja

Every word from Proto-Uralic -ja