Where does “lepertely” come from?

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

lepertely (Finnish): babbling like a baby

Definitions

  1. babbling like a baby

Ancestry of “lepertely”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishleperrelläto babble like a baby
2Finnishlepertääto babble
3Finnishleppeäbalmy
4FinnishleppyäTo relent; To stop being angry
5Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
6Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs
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