Where does “kajari” come from?

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

kajari (Finnish): loudspeaker, speaker

Definitions

  1. loudspeaker, speaker

Ancestry of “kajari”, step by step

kajari traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kajahtaa

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

via Finnish Ari

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishAri—
2Latinadrianus—
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →Every word from Finnish kaikua →