Where does “pieneksyä” come from?

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

pieneksyä (Finnish): To belittle

Definitions

  1. To belittle

Ancestry of “pieneksyä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ksuaforms verbs describing the action of considering...
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 -ksua →
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