Where does “kuristua” come from?

kuristua (Finnish) comes from Ingrian -ua, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

kuristua (Finnish): To be strangled

Definitions

  1. To be strangled

Ancestry of “kuristua”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ingrian-uaUsed to form inchoative verbs
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →