Where does “torkahtaminen” come from?

torkahtaminen (Finnish) comes from Finnish torkahtaa, from Finnish torkkua, from Finnish torkku, from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u — Forms nouns from adjectives, nouns.

Ancestry of “torkahtaminen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtorkahtaato doze off, to doze, to snooze briefly
2Finnishtorkkuato snooze, doze, drowse
3Finnishtorkkunap, snooze; sleepy
4Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
5Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
Every word from Proto-Finnic -u →Every word from Finnish -u →Every word from Finnish torkkua →