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Where does “pilaantuva” come from?

pilaantuva (Finnish) comes from Finnish pilaantua, from Finnish -Vntua, from Finnish -untua, from Finnish -ntua, from Finnish -ua, from Proto-Finnic -üdäk.

pilaantuva (Finnish): perishable, putrescible, rottable; present active...

Definitions

  1. perishable, putrescible, rottable; present active...

Ancestry of “pilaantuva”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishpilaantuaTo spoil
2Finnish-VntuaForms passive verbs
3Finnish-untua—
4Finnish-ntuaForms reflexive or inchoative intransitive verbs
5Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
6Proto-Finnic-üdäk—
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