Where does “romunkerääjä” come from?

romunkerääjä (Finnish) comes from Finnish kerääjä, 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.

romunkerääjä (Finnish): scrap collector

Definitions

  1. scrap collector

Ancestry of “romunkerääjä”, step by step

romunkerääjä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kerääjä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkerääjäcollector thing that collects something
2Finnishjäice
3Proto-Finno-Ugric*ja—
4Proto-Germanicjahwand, also
5Proto-Germanic-hwand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
6Proto-Germanic-hwe—
7Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives

via Finnish romu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishromuscrap, junk, especially one that consists of...
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe →