Where does “kimmahtaminen” come from?

kimmahtaminen (Finnish) comes from Finnish kimmahtaa, from Finnish kimmota, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

Ancestry of “kimmahtaminen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkimmahtaato bounce back, to bounce off, to rebound, to...
2Finnishkimmotato be elastic/springy/resilient; to snap, spring...
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish kimmota →
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