Where does “mau’unta” come from?

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

mau’unta (Finnish): meow, the act of meowing

Definitions

  1. meow, the act of meowing

Ancestry of “mau’unta”, 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 →