Where does “haarautuma” come from?

haarautuma (Finnish) comes from Finnish haarautua, from Finnish -utua, from Finnish -ua, from Proto-Finnic -üdäk — Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs.

Ancestry of “haarautuma”, step by step

haarautuma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish haarautua

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhaarautuato branch (off/out), fork, divide, furcate
2Finnish-utua—
3Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
4Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs

via Finnish mä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishmäI
2FinnishminäI; ego; self
3Proto-FinnicminäI, me
4Uralic*minä—
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →Every word from Finnish -utua →