Finnish

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Etymology

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-us +‎ -taa, probably mostly by analogy or re-extraction, or through cases where the intermediate derivation was lost.

Suffix

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-ustaa (front vowel harmony variant -ystää, stem -usta-, linguistic notation -UstA- or -UstAA)

  1. Forms verbs for actions, with a somewhat frequentative meaning.

Derived terms

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