Where does “maksamakkara” come from?

maksamakkara (Finnish) comes from Finnish maksa, from Proto-Finnic maksa, from Proto-Uralic mëksa — liver.

maksamakkara (Finnish): liver sausage, liverwurst

Definitions

  1. liver sausage, liverwurst

Ancestry of “maksamakkara”, step by step

maksamakkara traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish maksa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmaksaliver; Indicative present connegative form of...
2Proto-Finnicmaksaliver
3Proto-Uralicmëksaliver

via Finnish makkara

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmakkarasausage
Every word from Proto-Uralic mëksa →Every word from Proto-Finnic maksa →Every word from Finnish maksa →