Where does “liehunta” come from?

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

liehunta (Finnish): flutter, sway, waver

Definitions

  1. flutter, sway, waver

Ancestry of “liehunta”, step by step

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