Where does “kilpakiipeily” come from?

kilpakiipeily (Finnish) comes from Finnish kiipeily, from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u — Forms nouns from adjectives, nouns.

kilpakiipeily (Finnish): competitive climbing

Definitions

  1. competitive climbing

Ancestry of “kilpakiipeily”, step by step

kilpakiipeily traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kiipeily

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkiipeilyclimbing
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns

via Finnish kilpa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkilpacontest, race
Every word from Proto-Finnic -u →Every word from Finnish -u →Every word from Finnish kiipeily →