Where does “hairahtuvainen” come from?
hairahtuvainen (Finnish) comes from Finnish hairahtua, from Finnish -ua, from Proto-Finnic -üdäk.
hairahtuvainen (Finnish): fallible, frail
Ancestry of “hairahtuvainen”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | hairahtua | To lapse, deviate |
| 2 | Finnish | -ua | Forms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -üdäk | — |