Where does “smaak” come from?

smaak (Dutch) comes from Middle Dutch smāke, from Old Dutch *smako, from Proto-West Germanic *smakō — taste.

smaak (Dutch): taste, sense of taste; taste, decorum

Definitions

  1. taste, sense of taste; taste, decorum

Ancestry of “smaak”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Dutchsmāketaste, act of tasting
2Old Dutch*smako
3Proto-West Germanic*smakōtaste

Words derived from “smaak

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *smakō