Where does “mäkitupa” come from?

mäkitupa (Finnish) comes from Finnish tupa, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *tupa, from Icelandic stofa, from Old Norse stofa, from German stōve, from Old Saxon *stova, from Proto-West Germanic *stobu.

mäkitupa (Finnish): A cottage; a small homestead with very little or no farmland, whose residents were tenants that earned their livelihood by doing other work instead of farming their land

Definitions

  1. A cottage; a small homestead with very little or no farmland, whose residents were tenants that earned their livelihood by doing other work instead of farming their land

Ancestry of “mäkitupa”, step by step

mäkitupa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tupa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtupaliving room, main room; cottage, cot; room
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*tupa
3Icelandicstofaa living room; a classroom, a room
4Old Norsestofaroom, living room
5Germanstōve
6Old Saxon*stova
7Proto-West Germanic*stobu

via Finnish Mäki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishMäkiAny of a number of small places in Finland
2Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
3Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
4Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
5Proto-Finno-Ugric-s

Words derived from “mäkitupa

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *stobuEvery word from Old Saxon *stovaEvery word from German stōve
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