Where does “pintapoiminta” come from?

pintapoiminta (Finnish) comes from Finnish pinta, from Proto-Finnic pinta, from Proto-Germanic spindaz — fat; lard; grease; smear; marrow.

pintapoiminta (Finnish): fieldwalking

Definitions

  1. fieldwalking

Ancestry of “pintapoiminta”, step by step

pintapoiminta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pinta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpintasurface
2Proto-Finnicpintasurface; sapwood; fat
3Proto-Germanicspindazfat; lard; grease; smear; marrow

via Finnish poiminta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpoimintacollecting, picking
2Finnish-ntäFront vowel variant of -nta; API
3Proto-Finnic-ntaForms action nouns from verbs
Every word from Proto-Germanic spindaz →Every word from Proto-Finnic pinta →Every word from Finnish pinta →
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