Where does “avolouhinta” come from?
avolouhinta (Finnish) comes from Finnish louhinta, from Finnish -ntä, from Proto-Finnic -nta.
avolouhinta (Finnish): open-pit mining
Ancestry of “avolouhinta”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | louhinta | mining, quarrying, blasting |
| 2 | Finnish | -ntä | Front vowel variant of -nta; API |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -nta | — |