Where does “leperrys” come from?

leperrys (Finnish) comes from Finnish lepertää, from Finnish leppeä, from Finnish leppyä, from Finnish -ua, from Proto-Finnic -üdäk — Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs.

leperrys (Finnish): babbling as to babies

Definitions

  1. babbling as to babies

Ancestry of “leperrys”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlepertääto babble
2Finnishleppeäbalmy
3FinnishleppyäTo relent; To stop being angry
4Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
5Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs
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