Where does “roskaaja” come from?

roskaaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish roskata, from Finnish -ätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

roskaaja (Finnish): litterer, litterbug

Definitions

  1. litterer, litterbug

Ancestry of “roskaaja”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishroskatato litter drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it
2Finnish-ätäFront vowel variant of -ata
3Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ätä →Every word from Finnish -tä →