Where does “diftongiutuma” come from?
diftongiutuma (Finnish) comes from Finnish mä, from Finnish minä, from Proto-Finnic minä, from Uralic *minä.
diftongiutuma (Finnish): diphthongisation
Definitions
- diphthongisation
Ancestry of “diftongiutuma”, step by step
diftongiutuma 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 diftongiutua
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | diftongiutua | To become a diphthong |
| 2 | Finnish | -utua | — |
| 3 | Finnish | -ua | Forms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -üdäk | Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs |