Where does “vartio” come from?

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

vartio (Finnish): guard, watch; troop

Definitions

  1. guard, watch; troop

Ancestry of “vartio”, step by step

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

Words derived from “vartio”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -ja →Every word from Finnish -ja →Every word from Finnish vartija →