Where does “koemaistaja” come from?
koemaistaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish maistaja, from Finnish maistaa, from Finnish maku, from Proto-Finnic maku, from Proto-Germanic smakkuz, from Proto-Indo-European smegʰ-.
koemaistaja (Finnish): taste-tester
Definitions
- taste-tester
Ancestry of “koemaistaja”, step by step
koemaistaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish maistaja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | maistaja | A taster; one who tastes |
| 2 | Finnish | maistaa | to taste; to taste, have a taste of |
| 3 | Finnish | maku | taste, flavor; sense of taste; flavor of a quark... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | maku | taste, flavour |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | smakkuz | taste, savour, smatch, flavour |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | smegʰ- | — |