Where does “putous” come from?

putous (Finnish) comes from Finnish pudota, from Proto-Finnic pudot'ak — to fall off.

putous (Finnish): fall, drop; slope; waterfall

Definitions

  1. fall, drop; slope; waterfall

Ancestry of “putous”, step by step

putous traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pudota

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpudotato fall (from an elevated position); to fall down, fall off; to drop, slip
2Proto-Finnicpudot'akto fall off

via Finnish us

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishus-ing

Words derived from “putous”

Every word from Proto-Finnic pudot'ak →Every word from Finnish pudota →