Where does “sykintä” come from?

sykintä (Finnish) comes from Finnish sykkiä, from Finnish -ia, from Proto-Finnic -idak, from Proto-Uralic -j-.

sykintä (Finnish): throb

Definitions

  1. throb

Ancestry of “sykintä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsykkiäto pulse, pulsate; to beat, throb; to be aroused
2Finnish-iaForms primarily transitive verbs describing...
3Proto-Finnic-idakapplicative suffix
4Proto-Uralic-j-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -j- →Every word from Finnish -ia →Every word from Proto-Finnic -idak →