Where does “perääntyä” come from?

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

perääntyä (Finnish): to back off, back away to move backwards away from something

Definitions

  1. to back off, back away to move backwards away from something

Ancestry of “perääntyä”, 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

Words derived from “perääntyä”

Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →Every word from Finnish -Vntua →