Where does “nuuskinta” come from?

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

nuuskinta (Finnish): sniffing

Definitions

  1. sniffing

Ancestry of “nuuskinta”, 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 →