Where does “kaikua kuuroille korville” come from?

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

kaikua kuuroille korville (Finnish): to fall on deaf ears of a request, complaint, statement, etc, to be ignored

Definitions

  1. to fall on deaf ears of a request, complaint, statement, etc, to be ignored

Ancestry of “kaikua kuuroille korville”, 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
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →Every word from Finnish kaikua →