Where does “valanottaja” come from?

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

valanottaja (Finnish): oath administrator person authorized to administer an oath

Definitions

  1. oath administrator person authorized to administer an oath

Ancestry of “valanottaja”, step by step

valanottaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish ottaja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishottajaA taker, one who takes
2Finnish-ja-er
3Proto-Finnic-jaForms agent nouns from verbs
4Proto-Uralic-jaForms the present participle

via Finnish vala

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvalaoath; Indicative present connegative form of...
2Proto-Finnicvalaoath
3Proto-Uralicwalasong?; word?
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ja →Every word from Finnish -ja →Every word from Finnish ottaja →