Where does “kerskuri” come from?

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

kerskuri (Finnish): braggart

Definitions

  1. braggart

Ancestry of “kerskuri”, 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 →