Where does “ruuhkautuma” come from?
ruuhkautuma (Finnish) comes from Finnish ruuhkautua, from Finnish -utua, from Finnish -ua, from Proto-Finnic -üdäk — Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs.
Ancestry of “ruuhkautuma”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ruuhkautua | to be congested; to bottleneck |
| 2 | Finnish | -utua | — |
| 3 | Finnish | -ua | Forms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -üdäk | Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs |