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Where does “kitkentä” come from?

kitkentä (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ntä, from Proto-Finnic -nta.

kitkentä (Finnish): weeding

Definitions

  1. weeding

Ancestry of “kitkentä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ntäFront vowel variant of -nta; API
2Proto-Finnic-nta—
Every word from Proto-Finnic -nta →