Kotiuttaja

Kotiuttaja is a Finnish noun formed from koti, meaning "home," and the agentive suffix -uttaja, which denotes a doer or agent. The word is used to describe someone or something that brings someone or something back to a home location, and its exact meaning depends on the context.

In repatriation contexts, kotiuttaja refers to a person or organization responsible for arranging the return of citizens or residents to their home country or home region. The related process is called kotiuttaminen, or repatriation, and a kotiuttaja may be a government official, a consular officer, a humanitarian worker, or another actor coordinating the logistics and procedures involved.

In sports and other specialized domains, the term can take on a more figurative sense. For example, in Finnish baseball vocabulary, kotiuttaminen refers to driving a run home, and kotiuttaja can be used to denote the player who executes the play that brings a runner or the batter himself to home plate. The usage in sports is more domain-specific and less common in everyday language.

Overall, kotiuttaja is a niche term whose primary association is with bringing individuals or outcomes back to a home position, with repatriation being the most established and formal domain of use. The word is not widely used outside specialized contexts, and its interpretation relies on the surrounding discourse to clarify whether it refers to people, organizations, or a sporting action. See also kotiuttaminen.