Where does “alaslyönti” come from?

alaslyönti (Finnish) comes from Finnish lyönti, from Finnish -nti, from Finnish -nta, from Proto-Finnic -nta — Forms action nouns from verbs.

alaslyönti (Finnish): downbeat accented beat

Definitions

  1. downbeat accented beat

Ancestry of “alaslyönti”, step by step

alaslyönti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lyönti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishlyöntiA hit
2Finnish-ntiForm action nouns from verbs whose first...
3Finnish-ntaForms nouns that describe an action; "erota...
4Proto-Finnic-ntaForms action nouns from verbs

via Finnish alas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishalasdown; downward; down with
2Proto-Finnicalasdown, downward
3Proto-Uralicëlabelow
Every word from Proto-Finnic -nta →Every word from Finnish -nti →Every word from Finnish lyönti →