Where does “painiottelu” come from?

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

painiottelu (Finnish): wrestling match

Definitions

  1. wrestling match

Ancestry of “painiottelu”, step by step

painiottelu 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 ottelu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishottelumatch
2FinnishotellaTo compete
3Finnishottaato take; to take, ingest or drink; to deprive of,...
4Proto-Finnicvottadakto take
5Proto-Indo-Europeanwendʰ-to wind, to turn
Every word from Proto-Uralic pajńa- →
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