Where does “hyökyä” come from?

hyökyä (Finnish) comes from Finnish hyöky, from Finnish huoku, from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u — Forms nouns from adjectives, nouns.

hyökyä (Finnish): To billow

Definitions

  1. To billow

Ancestry of “hyökyä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishhyökyA surge; An outpouring; A waterfall
2Finnishhuokuair current, exhalation
3Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
4Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
Every word from Proto-Finnic -u →Every word from Finnish -u →Every word from Finnish huoku →