Where does “parkuna” come from?

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

parkuna (Finnish): baby's cry

Definitions

  1. baby's cry

Ancestry of “parkuna”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishparkuaTo bawl, blubber, cry loudly
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 parkua →