Where does “kerskuja” come from?

kerskuja (Finnish) comes from Finnish kerskua, from Finnish -ua, from Proto-Finnic -üdäk — Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs.

kerskuja (Finnish): bragger, boaster

Definitions

  1. bragger, boaster

Ancestry of “kerskuja”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkerskuato brag, boast
2Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
3Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →Every word from Finnish kerskua →