Where does “kiehunta” come from?

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

kiehunta (Finnish): boiling

Definitions

  1. boiling

Ancestry of “kiehunta”, step by step

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

Words derived from “kiehunta”

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