Where does “sydämenlyönti” come from?

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

sydämenlyönti (Finnish): heartbeat

Definitions

  1. heartbeat

Ancestry of “sydämenlyönti”, step by step

sydämenlyönti 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 sydän

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsydänheart; core; wick
2Proto-Finnicsüdänheart
3Proto-Uralicśüdämeheart
Every word from Proto-Finnic -nta →Every word from Finnish -nti →Every word from Finnish lyönti →