Where does “ahminta” come from?
ahminta (Finnish) comes from Finnish ahmia, from Finnish -ia, from Proto-Finnic -idak, from Proto-Uralic -j-.
ahminta (Finnish): gorging
Ancestry of “ahminta”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | ahmia | to wolf down, eat quickly, gulp, gobble, hog,... |
| 2 | Finnish | -ia | Forms primarily transitive verbs describing... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -idak | applicative suffix |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -j- | — |