Where does “selvänäkijä” come from?

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

selvänäkijä (Finnish): clairvoyant person able to see things in the past, present or future, which cannot be perceived by the normal senses

Definitions

  1. clairvoyant person able to see things in the past, present or future, which cannot be perceived by the normal senses

Ancestry of “selvänäkijä”, step by step

selvänäkijä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish näkijä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnäkijäseer
2Finnish-ja-er
3Proto-Finnic-jaForms agent nouns from verbs
4Proto-Uralic-jaForms the present participle

via Finnish selvä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishselväclear; free; sober
2Proto-Finnicselvä—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ja →Every word from Finnish -ja →Every word from Finnish näkijä →