Where does “avautuma” come from?
avautuma (Finnish) comes from Finnish mä, from Finnish minä, from Proto-Finnic minä, from Uralic *minä.
avautuma (Finnish): opening
Ancestry of “avautuma”, step by step
avautuma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish mä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | mä | I |
| 2 | Finnish | minä | I; ego; self |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | minä | I, me |
| 4 | Uralic | *minä | — |
via Finnish avautua
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | avautua | To open, open out/up; To come... |
| 2 | Finnish | -utua | — |
| 3 | Finnish | -ua | Forms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -üdäk | Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs |