Where does “pieneläjä” come from?

pieneläjä (Finnish) comes from Finnish eläjä, from Finnish -ja, from Proto-Finnic -ja, from Proto-Uralic -ja — Forms the present participle.

pieneläjä (Finnish): lowly, unprivileged person

Definitions

  1. lowly, unprivileged person

Ancestry of “pieneläjä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnisheläjäliver; creature
2Finnish-ja-er
3Proto-Finnic-jaForms agent nouns from verbs
4Proto-Uralic-jaForms the present participle
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ja →Every word from Finnish -ja →Every word from Finnish eläjä →