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Where does “jyrsintä” come from?

jyrsintä (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ntä, from Proto-Finnic -nta.

jyrsintä (Finnish): gnawing; routing

Definitions

  1. gnawing; routing

Ancestry of “jyrsintä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ntäFront vowel variant of -nta; API
2Proto-Finnic-nta—
Every word from Proto-Finnic -nta →