-ustaa

Finnish

Etymology

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

Suffix

-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

Finnish terms suffixed with -ustaa