Where does “ripsua” come from?

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

ripsua (Finnish): to use a vasta on a cow while it is being milked so as to keep various flying insects away

Definitions

  1. to use a vasta on a cow while it is being milked so as to keep various flying insects away

Ancestry of “ripsua”, 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 →