Where does “parmaaja” come from?

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

parmaaja (Finnish): An official who inspected lumber and checked measurements

Definitions

  1. An official who inspected lumber and checked measurements

Ancestry of “parmaaja”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
2Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
3Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -tä →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ta →