Where does “tirskunta” come from?

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

tirskunta (Finnish): titter

Definitions

  1. titter

Ancestry of “tirskunta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtirskuato titter; to chirp
2Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
3Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →Every word from Finnish tirskua →