Where does “vaalinta” come from?

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

vaalinta (Finnish): The action of the verb vaalia

Definitions

  1. The action of the verb vaalia

Ancestry of “vaalinta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ntäFront vowel variant of -nta; API
2Proto-Finnic-ntaForms action nouns from verbs
Every word from Proto-Finnic -nta →Every word from Finnish -ntä →
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