Where does “kyyristellä” come from?
kyyristellä (Finnish) comes from Finnish kyyristyä, from Finnish kyyristää, from Finnish kyyry, from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u.
kyyristellä (Finnish): to crouch, squat, cower
Ancestry of “kyyristellä”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | kyyristyä | to crouch, squat, cower |
| 2 | Finnish | kyyristää | to crouch |
| 3 | Finnish | kyyry | hunch, hunched position |
| 4 | Finnish | -u | Forms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and... |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -u | — |