Where does “etsintä” come from?

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

etsintä (Finnish): search; Partitive singular form of etsin

Definitions

  1. search; Partitive singular form of etsin

Ancestry of “etsintä”, step by step

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

Words derived from “etsintä”

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