Where does “kajahdus” come from?

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

kajahdus (Finnish): echoing, ringing out, sounding

Definitions

  1. echoing, ringing out, sounding

Ancestry of “kajahdus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkajahtaato echo, ring out, sound
2Finnishkaikuato echo, reverberate; Partitive singular form...
3Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
4Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →Every word from Finnish kaikua →