-uu

From earlier *-au < *-ao < *-ado, from Proto-Finnic *-o (whence also Finnish -o) plus the inflectional stem of verbs ending in *-at'ak. Cognates include Karelian -avo.

-uu (front vowel harmony variant -yy)

1. Forms nouns from verbs.

   evätä (“to deny”) → epuu (“refusal”)

   hakata (“to beat, chop, cut”) → hakkuu (“chopping, logging”)

   kerätä (“to collect”) → keruu (“collecting”)

This suffix is used for some verbs whose citation form ends in -ata or -ätä. The back vowel harmony form -uu is used even when the stem has e or i. The verbal stem is in the strong grade if applicable.

• -o
• -u