Where does “kiihkoutua” come from?

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

kiihkoutua (Finnish): to get in a frenzy, to become zealous

Definitions

  1. to get in a frenzy, to become zealous

Ancestry of “kiihkoutua”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-utua—
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 -utua →
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