Where does “kuikku” come from?

kuikku (Finnish) comes from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u — Forms nouns from adjectives, nouns.

kuikku (Finnish): black-throated diver

Definitions

  1. black-throated diver

Ancestry of “kuikku”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
2Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns

Words derived from “kuikku”

Every word from Proto-Finnic -u →Every word from Finnish -u →