Where does “aarteenetsintä” come from?

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

aarteenetsintä (Finnish): treasure hunting

Definitions

  1. treasure hunting

Ancestry of “aarteenetsintä”, step by step

aarteenetsintä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish etsintä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishetsintäsearch; Partitive singular form of etsin
2Finnish-ntäFront vowel variant of -nta; API
3Proto-Finnic-ntaForms action nouns from verbs

via Finnish aarre

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishaarretreasure; treasure trove
Every word from Proto-Finnic -nta →Every word from Finnish -ntä →Every word from Finnish etsintä →