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Where does “aistimuisti” come from?

aistimuisti (Finnish) comes from Finnish aisti, from Finnish haisti, from Finnish haistaa, from Proto-Finnic haistadak — to smell.

aistimuisti (Finnish): sensory memory

Definitions

  1. sensory memory

Ancestry of “aistimuisti”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishaistisense; Third-person singular indicative past form...
2Finnishhaistiolfaction; the sense of smell
3Finnishhaistaato sniff, smell; to scent, smell/nose out, get...
4Proto-Finnichaistadakto smell
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