Where does “suunpieksentä” come from?

suunpieksentä (Finnish) comes from Finnish pieksentä, from Finnish piestä, from Finnish pieksää, from Proto-Finnic peksädäk, from Proto-Uralic peksä- — to beat.

suunpieksentä (Finnish): backchat, backtalk, sass

Definitions

  1. backchat, backtalk, sass

Ancestry of “suunpieksentä”, step by step

suunpieksentä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pieksentä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpieksentä—
2Finnishpiestäto beat, thrash, whip, lash, batter
3FinnishpieksääSynonym of piestä; Third-person singular...
4Proto-Finnicpeksädäkto beat
5Proto-Uralicpeksä-to beat

via Finnish suu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsuumouth
2Proto-Finnicsüüthread, fibre; annual ring; reason, cause
3Proto-Uralicśuwemouth
Every word from Proto-Uralic peksä- →Every word from Proto-Finnic peksädäk →Every word from Finnish pieksää →