Where does “erimakuinen” come from?
erimakuinen (Finnish) comes from Finnish maku, from Proto-Finnic maku, from Proto-Germanic smakkuz, from Proto-Indo-European smegʰ-.
erimakuinen (Finnish): having a different taste
Ancestry of “erimakuinen”, step by step
erimakuinen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish maku
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | maku | taste, flavor; sense of taste; flavor of a quark... |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | maku | taste, flavour |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | smakkuz | taste, savour, smatch, flavour |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | smegʰ- | — |
via Finnish eri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | eri | different, other, another; different, separate;... |
| 2 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *erei | — |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | er- | eagle, bird; loose, light, rare, sparse; to fail,... |