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Where does “sytyntä” come from?
sytyntä (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ntä, from Proto-Finnic -nta — Forms action nouns from verbs.
Ancestry of “sytyntä”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Finnish
-ntä
Front vowel variant of -nta; API
2
Proto-Finnic
-nta
Forms action nouns from verbs
Words derived from “sytyntä”
itsesytyntä
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