Where does “uuvutussota” come from?

uuvutussota (Finnish) comes from Finnish uuvutus, from Finnish uuvuttaa, from Finnish uupua, from Finnish uu, from Latin U, from Latin V, from Etruscan ? — u.

uuvutussota (Finnish): war of attrition prolonged exhausting war

Definitions

  1. war of attrition prolonged exhausting war

Ancestry of “uuvutussota”, step by step

uuvutussota traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish uuvutus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishuuvutusexhausting causing to get exhausted
2Finnishuuvuttaato exhaust
3Finnishuupuato get tired, get exhausted, get fatigued; to be...
4FinnishuuThe name of the Latin-script letter U; hole, nest
5LatinU
6LatinVve
7Etruscan?u

via Finnish sota

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsotawar; warfare; military, war-
2Proto-Finnicsotawar, conflict
3Proto-Uralicśoďawar
Every word from Etruscan ?Every word from Latin VEvery word from Latin U
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