Where does “selviytyjä” come from?

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

selviytyjä (Finnish): survivor

Definitions

  1. survivor

Ancestry of “selviytyjä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishselviytyäto survive; to cope; to get by
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 →