Where does “päävartio” come from?

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

päävartio (Finnish): main guardhouse

Definitions

  1. main guardhouse

Ancestry of “päävartio”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvartioguard, watch; troop
2Finnishvartijaguard
3Finnish-ja-er
4Proto-Finnic-jaForms agent nouns from verbs
5Proto-Uralic-jaForms the present participle
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ja →Every word from Finnish -ja →Every word from Finnish vartija →