Etymology Explorer › FinnishWhere does “kaikuluotaus” come from? kaikuluotaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish luotaus, from Finnish luodata, from Finnish luoti, from Old Swedish lodh, from Middle Low German lōt, from Old Saxon lōd, from Proto-West Germanic laud — lead.
kaikuluotaus (Finnish): echo sounding; echolocation
Definitions echo sounding; echolocation Ancestry of “kaikuluotaus”, step by step kaikuluotaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish luotaus Step Language Word Meaning 1 Finnish luotaus probing 2 Finnish luodata to plumb, cast, fathom; to sound, fathom; to... 3 Finnish luoti bullet; plumb bob; unit of measure for weight... 4 Old Swedish lodh — 5 Middle Low German lōt — 6 Old Saxon lōd — 7 Proto-West Germanic laud lead
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