Where does “painajainen” come from?

painajainen (Finnish) comes from Finnish -iainen, from Finnish -ja, from Proto-Finnic -ja, from Proto-Uralic -ja — Forms the present participle.

painajainen (Finnish): nightmare

Definitions

  1. nightmare

Ancestry of “painajainen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-iainenForms certain nouns; Forms names of ceremonies...
2Finnish-ja-er
3Proto-Finnic-jaForms agent nouns from verbs
4Proto-Uralic-jaForms the present participle

Words derived from “painajainen”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -ja →Every word from Finnish -ja →Every word from Finnish -iainen →