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Where does “parkua” come from?

parkua (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ua, from Proto-Finnic -üdäk.

parkua (Finnish): To bawl, blubber, cry loudly

Definitions

  1. To bawl, blubber, cry loudly

Ancestry of “parkua”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
2Proto-Finnic-üdäk—

Words derived from “parkua”

  • parkaisu
  • parkaista
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →