Where does “paini” come from?

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

paini (Finnish): wrestling; Third-person singular indicative past...

Definitions

  1. wrestling; Third-person singular indicative past...

Ancestry of “paini”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishpainiaTo wrestle; Partitive plural form of paini
2Finnishpainaato push, press; to print; to weigh
3Proto-Finnicpainadakto push, to press
4Proto-Uralicpajńa-press

Words derived from “paini”

Every word from Proto-Uralic pajńa- →