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
- Third-person singular indicative past form of...
Ancestry of “puri”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | purra | To bite |
| 2 | Finnish | -skella | Forms frequentative verbs, chiefly from... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -skeldak | — |
| 4 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | -śk- | — |