Where does “notkunta” come from?

notkunta (Finnish) comes from Finnish notkua, from Finnish -ua, from Proto-Finnic -üdäk — Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs.

notkunta (Finnish): sagging

Definitions

  1. sagging

Ancestry of “notkunta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnotkuato sag, bend; to mess around, to fool around, to...
2Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
3Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →Every word from Finnish notkua →
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