Where does “rintamakirjeenvaihtaja” come from?

rintamakirjeenvaihtaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish kirjeenvaihtaja, from Finnish vaihtaja, from Finnish jä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ja, from Proto-Germanic jahw, from Proto-Germanic -hw, from Proto-Germanic -hwe, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.

rintamakirjeenvaihtaja (Finnish): war correspondent operating at a battlefront

Definitions

  1. war correspondent operating at a battlefront

Ancestry of “rintamakirjeenvaihtaja”, step by step

rintamakirjeenvaihtaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kirjeenvaihtaja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkirjeenvaihtajacorrespondent
2Finnishvaihtajachanger, exchanger; derailleur
3Finnishjäice
4Proto-Finno-Ugric*ja—
5Proto-Germanicjahwand, also
6Proto-Germanic-hwand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
7Proto-Germanic-hwe—
8Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives

via Finnish rintama

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrintamafront, battlefront; front; theater
2Finnishrintabreast; chest, especially the front side of it
3Finnish-mäFront vowel variant of -ma
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe →Every word from Proto-Germanic -hw →Every word from Proto-Germanic jahw →