-ustaa
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
-us + -taa, probably mostly by analogy or re-extraction, or through cases where the intermediate derivation was lost.
Suffix[edit]
-ustaa (front vowel harmony variant -ystää, stem -usta-, linguistic notation -UstA- or -UstAA)
- Forms verbs for actions, with a somewhat frequentative meaning.