Where does “juopporetku” come from?
juopporetku (Finnish) comes from Finnish juoppo, from Finnish juoda, from Proto-Finnic joodak, from Proto-Uralic jëxe- — to drink; to flow?.
juopporetku (Finnish): sot drunkard
Ancestry of “juopporetku”, step by step
juopporetku traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish juoppo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | juoppo | A drunkard |
| 2 | Finnish | juoda | to drink |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | joodak | to drink |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | jëxe- | to drink; to flow? |
via Finnish retku
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | retku | scoundrel, punk |
| 2 | Finnish | retkua | to droop, to hang, to sprawl |
| 3 | Finnish | -ua | Forms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -üdäk | Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs |