Where does “kaiuton” come from?
kaiuton (Finnish) comes from Finnish kaiku, from Finnish kaikua, from Finnish -ua, from Proto-Finnic -üdäk.
kaiuton (Finnish): echoless, anechoic
Ancestry of “kaiuton”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 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 | — |