Where does “raapaisu” come from?
raapaisu (Finnish) comes from Finnish raapaista, from Finnish raapia, from Finnish -ia, from Proto-Finnic -idak, from Proto-Uralic -j-.
raapaisu (Finnish): A graze; light scratch
Ancestry of “raapaisu”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | raapaista | To scratch, scrape |
| 2 | Finnish | raapia | To scratch, scrape |
| 3 | Finnish | -ia | Forms primarily transitive verbs describing... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -idak | applicative suffix |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -j- | — |