Where does “kaikupohja” come from?

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

kaikupohja (Finnish): sounding board, soundboard

Definitions

  1. sounding board, soundboard

Ancestry of “kaikupohja”, step by step

kaikupohja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kaiku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkaikuecho
2Finnishkaikuato echo, reverberate; Partitive singular form...
3Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
4Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs

via Finnish pohja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpohjabottom; bed; fundament
2Proto-Finnicpohjabottom; base, foundation; north
3Proto-Finno-Permicpošja—
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →Every word from Finnish kaikua →