Where does “pärske” come from?

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

pärske (Finnish): spindrift

Definitions

  1. spindrift

Ancestry of “pärske”, step by step

pärske traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pärskyä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpärskyäto splash
2Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
3Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs

via Finnish e

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnisheE note
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →Every word from Finnish pärskyä →