Where does “-nta-i” come from?

-nta-i (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ntä, from Proto-Finnic -nta — Forms action nouns from verbs.

Ancestry of “-nta-i”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ntäFront vowel variant of -nta; API
2Proto-Finnic-ntaForms action nouns from verbs

Words derived from “-nta-i”

Every word from Proto-Finnic -nta →Every word from Finnish -ntä →