Where does “revetä” come from?

revetä (Finnish) comes from Finnish repiä, from Proto-Finnic repidäk — to tear, to rip.

revetä (Finnish): to rupture, rip, tear; to burst out laughing

Definitions

  1. to rupture, rip, tear; to burst out laughing

Ancestry of “revetä”, step by step

revetä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish repiä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishrepiäTo tear, shred, rip
2Proto-Finnicrepidäkto tear, to rip

via Ingrian reppiä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ingrianreppiäto tear; rip

Words derived from “revetä”

Every word from Proto-Finnic repidäk →Every word from Finnish repiä →