Where does “huuhtoutuma” come from?
huuhtoutuma (Finnish) comes from Finnish huuhtoutua, from Finnish -utua, from Finnish -ua, from Proto-Finnic -üdäk — Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs.
Ancestry of “huuhtoutuma”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | huuhtoutua | to be washed (away), be rinsed (away), be eroded (away), be swept (away), to leach |
| 2 | Finnish | -utua | — |
| 3 | Finnish | -ua | Forms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -üdäk | Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs |