Where does “makutottumus” come from?

makutottumus (Finnish) comes from Finnish tottumus, from Finnish -mus, from Finnish -ma, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

makutottumus (Finnish): taste person's implicit set of preferences, almost always gustatory or culinary but sometimes used figuratively

Definitions

  1. taste person's implicit set of preferences, almost always gustatory or culinary but sometimes used figuratively

Ancestry of “makutottumus”, step by step

makutottumus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tottumus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtottumushabit, custom, routine
2Finnish-musForms nouns from verbs. Variant of -us used with...
3Finnish-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; The suffix...
4Proto-Finnic-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the...
5Proto-Uralic-ma—

via Finnish maku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmakutaste, flavor; sense of taste; flavor of a quark...
2Proto-Finnicmakutaste, flavour
3Proto-Germanicsmakkuztaste, savour, smatch, flavour
4Proto-Indo-Europeansmegʰ-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ma →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ma →Every word from Finnish -mus →