Where does “tartuntareitti” come from?

tartuntareitti (Finnish) comes from Finnish tartunta, from Finnish -ntä, from Proto-Finnic -nta — Forms action nouns from verbs.

tartuntareitti (Finnish): infection route

Definitions

  1. infection route

Ancestry of “tartuntareitti”, step by step

tartuntareitti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tartunta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtartuntacontagion, infection
2Finnish-ntäFront vowel variant of -nta; API
3Proto-Finnic-ntaForms action nouns from verbs

via Finnish reitti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishreittiroute
2Old Norsereitrmarked-out space; square; marked-out space
Every word from Proto-Finnic -nta →Every word from Finnish -ntä →Every word from Finnish tartunta →