Where does “pieksõ” come from?

pieksõ (Livonian) comes from Proto-Finnic peksädäk, from Proto-Uralic peksä- — to beat.

pieksõ (Livonian): to beat up, thrash

Definitions

  1. to beat up, thrash

Ancestry of “pieksõ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finnicpeksädäkto beat
2Proto-Uralicpeksä-to beat
Every word from Proto-Uralic peksä- →Every word from Proto-Finnic peksädäk →
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