Where does “maistelumenu” come from?
maistelumenu (Finnish) comes from Finnish menu, from French menu, from Middle French menu, from Old French menu, from Latin minūtus, from Proto-Italic minwō, from Proto-Indo-European mēy- — soft, tender, dear.
maistelumenu (Finnish): tasting menu style of restaurant dining in which guests receive a series of small, intricate dishes
Definitions
- tasting menu style of restaurant dining in which guests receive a series of small, intricate dishes
Ancestry of “maistelumenu”, step by step
maistelumenu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish menu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | menu | menu, bill of fare; menu |
| 2 | French | menu | slim, small, fine; minor, trifling; detailed list |
| 3 | Middle French | menu | small |
| 4 | Old French | menu | small |
| 5 | Latin | minūtus | diminished, having been diminished |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | minwō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | mēy- | soft, tender, dear |
via Finnish maistelu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | maistelu | try, tasting |
| 2 | Finnish | maistella | To taste |
| 3 | Finnish | maistaa | to taste; to taste, have a taste of |
| 4 | Finnish | maku | taste, flavor; sense of taste; flavor of a quark... |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | maku | taste, flavour |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | smakkuz | taste, savour, smatch, flavour |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | smegʰ- | — |