Where does “kosintamenot” come from?

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

kosintamenot (Finnish): courtship ritual

Definitions

  1. courtship ritual

Ancestry of “kosintamenot”, step by step

kosintamenot traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kosinta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkosintaproposal of marriage
2Finnish-ntäFront vowel variant of -nta; API
3Proto-Finnic-ntaForms action nouns from verbs

via Finnish meno

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmenogoing; course, ride; expense, expenditure
2Proto-Finnicmenogoing
Every word from Proto-Finnic -nta →Every word from Finnish -ntä →Every word from Finnish kosinta →
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