Where does “purkain” come from?

purkain (Finnish) comes from Finnish -jain, from Finnish -in, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *-in, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

purkain (Finnish): unloader

Definitions

  1. unloader

Ancestry of “purkain”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-jainForms agent nouns from verbs
2Finnish-inSuffix variant for the illative singular, see...
3Proto-Finno-Ugric*-in—
4Proto-Uralic-ma—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ma →Every word from Finnish -in →Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric *-in →