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Where does “petäjä” come from?

petäjä (Finnish) comes from Proto-Finnic petägä, from Proto-Uralic pečä — pine.

petäjä (Finnish): pine; a large, lone pine tree

Definitions

  1. pine; a large, lone pine tree

Ancestry of “petäjä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finnicpetägäpine
2Proto-Uralicpečäpine
Every word from Proto-Uralic pečä →