Where does “paaritumine” come from?

paaritumine (Estonian) comes from Estonian -mine, from Proto-Finnic -minen, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

paaritumine (Estonian): copulation

Definitions

  1. copulation

Ancestry of “paaritumine”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Estonian-minederives adjectives from nouns or prefixes; forms...
2Proto-Finnic-minenForms nouns from verbs, indicating the action of...
3Proto-Finnic-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the...
4Proto-Uralic-ma—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ma →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ma →Every word from Estonian -mine →