Where does “riistanpyynti” come from?

riistanpyynti (Finnish) comes from Finnish pyynti, from Finnish -nti, from Finnish -nta, from Proto-Finnic -nta — Forms action nouns from verbs.

riistanpyynti (Finnish): game hunting

Definitions

  1. game hunting

Ancestry of “riistanpyynti”, step by step

riistanpyynti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pyynti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpyyntihunting; fishing
2Finnish-ntiForm action nouns from verbs whose first...
3Finnish-ntaForms nouns that describe an action; "erota...
4Proto-Finnic-ntaForms action nouns from verbs

via Finnish riista

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishriistagame
2Proto-Finnicriistaobject, item, ware
Every word from Proto-Finnic -nta →Every word from Finnish -nti →Every word from Finnish pyynti →