Where does “hankailu” come from?

hankailu (Finnish) comes from Finnish hankailla, from Finnish hangata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

hankailu (Finnish): rubbing (repeatedly)

Definitions

  1. rubbing (repeatedly)

Ancestry of “hankailu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhankailla—
2Finnishhangatato rub; "~ vastaan:" to resist
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish hangata →
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