Where does “selviytyä” come from?

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

selviytyä (Finnish): to survive; to cope; to get by

Definitions

  1. to survive; to cope; to get by

Ancestry of “selviytyä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-utua—
2Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
3Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs

Words derived from “selviytyä”

Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →Every word from Finnish -utua →