Where does “kaikukoppa” come from?
kaikukoppa (Finnish) comes from Finnish koppa, from Ancient Greek κόππα, from Ancient Greek ϙόππα, from Phoenician 𐤒 — qoph; qop.
kaikukoppa (Finnish): sound box
Ancestry of “kaikukoppa”, step by step
kaikukoppa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish koppa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | koppa | basket; koppa |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | κόππα | Alternative form of ϙόππα |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | ϙόππα | qoppa, an archaic letter Ϙ, ϙ of the Ancient... |
| 4 | Phoenician | 𐤒 | qoph; qop |
via Finnish kaiku
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kaiku | echo |
| 2 | Finnish | kaikua | to echo, reverberate; Partitive singular form... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ua | Forms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -üdäk | Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs |