Where does “mutapaini” come from?

mutapaini (Finnish) comes from Finnish paini, from Finnish painia, from Finnish painaa, from Proto-Finnic painadak, from Proto-Uralic pajńa- — press.

mutapaini (Finnish): mud wrestling

Definitions

  1. mud wrestling

Ancestry of “mutapaini”, step by step

mutapaini traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish paini

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpainiwrestling; Third-person singular indicative past...
2FinnishpainiaTo wrestle; Partitive plural form of paini
3Finnishpainaato push, press; to print; to weigh
4Proto-Finnicpainadakto push, to press
5Proto-Uralicpajńa-press

via Finnish muta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmutamire, mud; decaying organic matter in the bottom...
2Proto-Finnicmutamud
3Proto-Uralicmuďaearth
Every word from Proto-Uralic pajńa- →Every word from Proto-Finnic painadak →Every word from Finnish painaa →