Where does “hiihdäntä” come from?

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

hiihdäntä (Finnish): skiing

Definitions

  1. skiing

Ancestry of “hiihdäntä”, step by step

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