Where does “puri” come from?

puri (Finnish) comes from Finnish purra, from Finnish -skella, from Proto-Finnic -skeldak, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -śk-.

puri (Finnish): Third-person singular indicative past form of...

Definitions

  1. Third-person singular indicative past form of...

Ancestry of “puri”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishpurraTo bite
2Finnish-skellaForms frequentative verbs, chiefly from...
3Proto-Finnic-skeldakForms frequentative verbs
4Proto-Finno-Ugric-śk-
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -śk-Every word from Finnish -skellaEvery word from Finnish purra
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