Where does “-tojo” come from?

-tojo (Maquiritari) comes from Hungarian tojik, from Proto-Uralic toxe-, from Hungarian -ik — Specifies "which" one of a specific set of...

-tojo (Maquiritari): Instrumental nominalizer

Definitions

  1. Instrumental nominalizer

Ancestry of “-tojo”, step by step

-tojo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian tojik

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungariantojikto lay
2Proto-Uralictoxe-to bring, give
3Hungarian-ikSpecifies "which" one of a specific set of...

via Swahili toja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swahilitojato tattoo

Words derived from “-tojo”

Every word from Hungarian -ik →Every word from Proto-Uralic toxe- →Every word from Hungarian tojik →