Where does “kostautua” come from?

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

kostautua (Finnish): to backfire, cost, be costly fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune

Definitions

  1. to backfire, cost, be costly fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune

Ancestry of “kostautua”, 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 →