Where does “vartiosto” come from?

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

vartiosto (Finnish): guard squad, group or force responsible for protecting something

Definitions

  1. guard squad, group or force responsible for protecting something

Ancestry of “vartiosto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvartioguard, watch; troop
2Finnishvartijaguard
3Finnish-ja-er
4Proto-Finnic-jaForms agent nouns from verbs
5Proto-Uralic-jaForms the present participle

Words derived from “vartiosto”

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