Where does “kaiku” come from?

kaiku (Finnish) comes from Finnish kaikua, from Finnish -ua, from Proto-Finnic -üdäk — Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs.

kaiku (Finnish): echo

Definitions

  1. echo

Ancestry of “kaiku”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkaikuato echo, reverberate; Partitive singular form...
2Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
3Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs

Words derived from “kaiku”

Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →Every word from Finnish kaikua →