Where does “puristua” come from?

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

puristua (Finnish): to be pressed, get squeezed, be compressed

Definitions

  1. to be pressed, get squeezed, be compressed

Ancestry of “puristua”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
2Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs

Words derived from “puristua

Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäkEvery word from Finnish -ua