Where does “rummunlyönti” come from?

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

rummunlyönti (Finnish): drumbeating, beating a drum, drumming

Definitions

  1. drumbeating, beating a drum, drumming

Ancestry of “rummunlyönti”, step by step

rummunlyönti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lyönti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishlyöntiA hit
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 rumpu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrumpudrum; cylinder; underpass built under e.g. roads...
2Old Swedishtrumba
Every word from Proto-Finnic -ntaEvery word from Finnish -ntiEvery word from Finnish lyönti