Where does “mätämuna” come from?
mätämuna (Finnish) comes from Swedish rötägg, from Swedish röta, from Swedish a, from Swedish avlopp, from Swedish lopp, from Swedish löpa, from Old Swedish løpa, from Old Norse hlaupa.
mätämuna (Finnish): A bad egg
Ancestry of “mätämuna”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Swedish | rötägg | — |
| 2 | Swedish | röta | rot; luck |
| 3 | Swedish | a | from |
| 4 | Swedish | avlopp | a drain; sewage |
| 5 | Swedish | lopp | a run, trace, track, path, a running ... |
| 6 | Swedish | löpa | to run along, stretch; to run, to move quickly... |
| 7 | Old Swedish | løpa | to run |
| 8 | Old Norse | hlaupa | to leap, jump, spring |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | hlaupaną | to jump forward, to leap |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | klaup- | — |