Where does “virranjakaja” come from?
virranjakaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish jakaja, from Finnish jakaa, from Proto-Finnic jakadak, from Proto-Uralic jëka- — divide.
virranjakaja (Finnish): A distributor
Ancestry of “virranjakaja”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | jakaja | deliveryman; distributor; divisor |
| 2 | Finnish | jakaa | to share; to distribute; to divide; to mete out,... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | jakadak | to share, to distribute |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | jëka- | divide |