Where does “kietoutuma” come from?

kietoutuma (Finnish) comes from Finnish kietoutua, from Finnish -utua, from Finnish -ua, from Proto-Finnic -üdäk — Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs.

kietoutuma (Finnish): entanglement, that which has entangled or intertwined

Definitions

  1. entanglement, that which has entangled or intertwined

Ancestry of “kietoutuma”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishkietoutuaTo intertwine
2Finnish-utua—
3Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
4Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →Every word from Finnish -utua →