Where does “puistonvartija” come from?

puistonvartija (Finnish) comes from Finnish puisto, from Finnish puu, from Proto-Finnic puu, from Proto-Uralic puwe — tree, wood.

puistonvartija (Finnish): park ranger, park warden

Definitions

  1. park ranger, park warden

Ancestry of “puistonvartija”, step by step

puistonvartija traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puisto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpuistopark
2Finnishpuutree; wood
3Proto-Finnicpuutree
4Proto-Uralicpuwetree, wood

via Finnish vartija

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvartijaguard
2Finnish-ja-er
3Proto-Finnic-jaForms agent nouns from verbs
4Proto-Uralic-jaForms the present participle
Every word from Proto-Uralic puwe →Every word from Proto-Finnic puu →Every word from Finnish puu →