Where does “pyyhintä” come from?

pyyhintä (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ntä, from Proto-Finnic -nta — Forms action nouns from verbs.

pyyhintä (Finnish): wiping

Definitions

  1. wiping

Ancestry of “pyyhintä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ntäFront vowel variant of -nta; API
2Proto-Finnic-ntaForms action nouns from verbs
Every word from Proto-Finnic -nta →Every word from Finnish -ntä →
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