Where does “pinko” come from?
pinko (Finnish) comes from Finnish pingottaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
pinko (Finnish): swot
Ancestry of “pinko”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | pingottaa | to stretch, tension; to study hard |
| 2 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
Words derived from “pinko”