Where does “painiskelu” come from?

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

painiskelu (Finnish): struggling with a problem, wrestling

Definitions

  1. struggling with a problem, wrestling

Ancestry of “painiskelu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishpainiskellaTo wrestle, struggle with a problem
2FinnishpainiaTo wrestle; Partitive plural form of paini
3Finnishpainaato push, press; to print; to weigh
4Proto-Finnicpainadakto push, to press
5Proto-Uralicpajńa-press
Every word from Proto-Uralic pajńa- →Every word from Proto-Finnic painadak →Every word from Finnish painaa →
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