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Where does “sykkiä” come from?

sykkiä (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ia, from Proto-Finnic -idak, from Proto-Uralic -j-.

sykkiä (Finnish): to pulse, pulsate; to beat, throb; to be aroused

Definitions

  1. to pulse, pulsate; to beat, throb; to be aroused

Ancestry of “sykkiä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-iaForms primarily transitive verbs describing...
2Proto-Finnic-idakapplicative suffix
3Proto-Uralic-j-—

Words derived from “sykkiä”

  • sykintä
  • korvasylkirauhanen
  • syki
  • leposyke
  • syke
Every word from Proto-Uralic -j- →