Where does “palkkaaja” come from?

palkkaaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish palkata, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

palkkaaja (Finnish): hirer

Definitions

  1. hirer

Ancestry of “palkkaaja”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpalkatato hire, employ
2Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
3Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
4Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -tä →Every word from Finnish palkata →