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Where does “kaiutin” come from?

kaiutin (Finnish) comes from Finnish kaiuttaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

kaiutin (Finnish): speaker, loudspeaker

Definitions

  1. speaker, loudspeaker

Ancestry of “kaiutin”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishkaiuttaaTo make something reverberate/echo
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—

Words derived from “kaiutin”

  • bassokaiutin
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →