Where does “karuunnuttaa” come from?

karuunnuttaa (Finnish) comes from Finnish karuuntua, from Finnish -Vntua, from Finnish -untua, from Finnish -ntua, from Finnish -ua, from Proto-Finnic -üdäk — Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs.

karuunnuttaa (Finnish): to impoverish make poor, or lacking in resources, such as to restore soil back to an earlier state prior to agriculture

Definitions

  1. to impoverish make poor, or lacking in resources, such as to restore soil back to an earlier state prior to agriculture

Ancestry of “karuunnuttaa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkaruuntuato become barren
2Finnish-VntuaForms passive verbs
3Finnish-untua—
4Finnish-ntuaForms reflexive or inchoative intransitive verbs
5Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
6Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →Every word from Finnish -Vntua →