Where does “-ua” come from?

-ua (Ingrian) comes from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

-ua (Ingrian): Used to form inchoative verbs

Definitions

  1. Used to form inchoative verbs

Ancestry of “-ua”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
2Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
3Proto-Uralic-kta-—

Words derived from “-ua”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →