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Where does “-aus” come from?

-aus (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ähtää, from Proto-Finnic -ahtadak, from Proto-Uralic -ašta-.

Ancestry of “-aus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ähtääFront vowel variant of -ahtaa
2Proto-Finnic-ahtadak—
3Proto-Uralic-ašta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ašta- →