Where does “kajahtanut” come from?

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

kajahtanut (Finnish): crazy, nuts

Definitions

  1. crazy, nuts

Ancestry of “kajahtanut”, 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 →