Where does “kiskonta” come from?

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

kiskonta (Finnish): usury, shylocking

Definitions

  1. usury, shylocking

Ancestry of “kiskonta”, step by step

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

Words derived from “kiskonta”

Every word from Proto-Finnic -nta →Every word from Finnish -ntä →