Where does “emämunaus” come from?

emämunaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish munaus, from Finnish munata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

emämunaus (Finnish): big mistake, blunder, fuckup

Definitions

  1. big mistake, blunder, fuckup

Ancestry of “emämunaus”, step by step

emämunaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish munaus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmunausscrewup, blunder; screwup
2Finnishmunatato screw up
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish emä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishemämother; mother of an animal, dam; womb
2Proto-Finnicemämother
3Proto-Uralicemämother
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä
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