Where does “kiilu” come from?

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

kiilu (Finnish): glow the state of a glowing object

Definitions

  1. glow the state of a glowing object

Ancestry of “kiilu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishkiiluaTo glimmer
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 kiilua →
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