Where does “puuskua” come from?

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

puuskua (Finnish): to pant, puff

Definitions

  1. to pant, puff

Ancestry of “puuskua”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
2Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →
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