Where does “vartija” come from?

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

vartija (Finnish): guard

Definitions

  1. guard

Ancestry of “vartija”, step by step

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

Words derived from “vartija”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -ja →
vartija — Etymology, Origin & Word History | Etymology Explorer