Where does “puhku” come from?

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

puhku (Finnish): huff, blow

Definitions

  1. huff, blow

Ancestry of “puhku”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpuhkuato huff, blow
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 puhkua →