Where does “kinostuma” come from?

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

kinostuma (Finnish): accumulated drift

Definitions

  1. accumulated drift

Ancestry of “kinostuma”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishkinostuaTo accumulate into drifts, especially of snow
2Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
3Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäkEvery word from Finnish -uaEvery word from Finnish kinostua