Where does “käpälöinti” come from?

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

käpälöinti (Finnish): pawing, getting handsy

Definitions

  1. pawing, getting handsy

Ancestry of “käpälöinti”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ntiForm action nouns from verbs whose first...
2Finnish-ntaForms nouns that describe an action; "erota...
3Proto-Finnic-ntaForms action nouns from verbs
Every word from Proto-Finnic -nta →Every word from Finnish -nti →Every word from Finnish -nta →