Where does “pieksäntä” come from?

pieksäntä (Finnish) comes from Finnish pieksää, from Proto-Finnic peksädäk, from Proto-Uralic peksä- — to beat.

pieksäntä (Finnish): beating, thrashing

Definitions

  1. beating, thrashing

Ancestry of “pieksäntä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishpieksääSynonym of piestä; Third-person singular...
2Proto-Finnicpeksädäkto beat
3Proto-Uralicpeksä-to beat

Words derived from “pieksäntä”

Every word from Proto-Uralic peksä- →Every word from Proto-Finnic peksädäk →Every word from Finnish pieksää →