Where does “väistyä” come from?

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

väistyä (Finnish): to yield, give way

Definitions

  1. to yield, give way

Ancestry of “väistyä”, step by step

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

Words derived from “väistyä”

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