Where does “painikilpailu” come from?

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

painikilpailu (Finnish): wrestling competition

Definitions

  1. wrestling competition

Ancestry of “painikilpailu”, step by step

painikilpailu 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 kilpailu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkilpailucontest, competition, race; competition; rivalry
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
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