Where does “paluumuuttaja” come from?

paluumuuttaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish muuttaja, from Finnish jä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ja, from Proto-Germanic jahw, from Proto-Germanic -hw, from Proto-Germanic -hwe, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.

paluumuuttaja (Finnish): returnee; an ex-pat who is returning home to live in their birth country

Definitions

  1. returnee; an ex-pat who is returning home to live in their birth country

Ancestry of “paluumuuttaja”, step by step

paluumuuttaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish muuttaja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmuuttajamover; transformer
2Finnishjäice
3Proto-Finno-Ugric*ja—
4Proto-Germanicjahwand, also
5Proto-Germanic-hwand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
6Proto-Germanic-hwe—
7Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives

via Finnish paluu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpaluureturn; comeback
2FinnishuuThe name of the Latin-script letter U; hole, nest
3LatinU—
4LatinVve
5Etruscan?u
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe →Every word from Proto-Germanic -hw →Every word from Proto-Germanic jahw →