Where does “pitäjänlehti” come from?

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

pitäjänlehti (Finnish): a local newspaper often that of a rural municipality

Definitions

  1. a local newspaper often that of a rural municipality

Ancestry of “pitäjänlehti”, step by step

pitäjänlehti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pitäjä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpitäjärural municipality; holder; keeper
2Finnish-ja-er
3Proto-Finnic-jaForms agent nouns from verbs
4Proto-Uralic-jaForms the present participle

via Finnish Lehti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishLehtileaf part of a plant
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*lehti—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ja →Every word from Finnish -ja →Every word from Finnish pitäjä →