Where does “limaantua” come from?

limaantua (Finnish) comes from Finnish -Vntua, from Finnish -untua, from Finnish -ntua, from Finnish -ua, from Proto-Finnic -üdäk — Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs.

limaantua (Finnish): To become coated by slime

Definitions

  1. To become coated by slime

Ancestry of “limaantua”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-VntuaForms passive verbs
2Finnish-untua
3Finnish-ntuaForms reflexive or inchoative intransitive verbs
4Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
5Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäkEvery word from Finnish -uaEvery word from Finnish -Vntua
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