Where does “maisematapetti” come from?

maisematapetti (Finnish) comes from Finnish maisema, from Finnish mainen, from Finnish maa, from Proto-Finnic maa, from Proto-Uralic mëxe, from Proto-Indo-European meǵh₂s — great.

maisematapetti (Finnish): landscape wallpaper

Definitions

  1. landscape wallpaper

Ancestry of “maisematapetti”, step by step

maisematapetti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish maisema

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmaisemalandscape, view
2Finnishmainenworldly
3Finnishmaaearth; soil; land
4Proto-Finnicmaaearth, ground, soil; land, country
5Proto-Uralicmëxeearth, land
6Proto-Indo-Europeanmeǵh₂sgreat

via Finnish tapetti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtapettiwallpaper
2Swedishtapeta wallpaper
Every word from Proto-Indo-European meǵh₂s →Every word from Proto-Uralic mëxe →Every word from Proto-Finnic maa →