Where does “meessugu” come from?

meessugu (Estonian) comes from Estonian mees, from Proto-Finnic mees, from Proto-Finnic meexes.

meessugu (Estonian): men, male sex

Definitions

  1. men, male sex

Ancestry of “meessugu”, step by step

meessugu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Estonian mees

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Estonianmeesman; husband; inessive singular of mesi
2Proto-Finnicmeesman, male; husband
3Proto-Finnicmeexes—

via Estonian sugu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Estoniansugugender, sex; genus, stock, kin
Every word from Proto-Finnic meexes →Every word from Proto-Finnic mees →Every word from Estonian mees →