Where does “kaiuntahuone” come from?

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

kaiuntahuone (Finnish): reverberation room

Definitions

  1. reverberation room

Ancestry of “kaiuntahuone”, step by step

kaiuntahuone traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kaiunta

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

via Finnish huone

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhuoneroom; house; house, hall
2Proto-Finnichoonehbuilding; room
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →Every word from Finnish kaikua →
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