heitäjä
Heitäjä is a Finnish noun that denotes a person who throws. The standard spelling in Finnish is heittäjä, formed from the verb heittää “to throw” with the agent suffix -jä. The term describes anyone who performs throwing, but its most common usage is in sports, where it often refers to athletes who throw implements.
In athletic contexts, several compound forms are used to specify the object of the throw. Keihäänheittäjä means
The word is closely related to the noun heitto, which means “a throw,” and to the verb
Note on orthography: the standard and widely accepted form is heittäjä. The spelling heitäjä is nonstandard
See also: heittäjä (sports contexts), keihäänheittäjä, kiekonheittäjä, kuulantyöntäjä.