Where does “repeytymä” come from?

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

repeytymä (Finnish): tear hole or break caused by tearing

Definitions

  1. tear hole or break caused by tearing

Ancestry of “repeytymä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrepeytyäto tear
2Finnish-utua—
3Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
4Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →Every word from Finnish -utua →