Where does “mangomehu” come from?

mangomehu (Finnish) comes from Finnish mango, from French mangue, from French manga, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய், from Tamil மா, from Old Tamil 𑀫𑀸 — big, great.

mangomehu (Finnish): mango juice

Definitions

  1. mango juice

Ancestry of “mangomehu”, step by step

mangomehu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish mango

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmangomango; long-nosed kusimanse, common kusimanse,...
2Frenchmanguemango; A carnivorous mammal related to the...
3Frenchmangaa manga
4Portuguesemangasleeve; mango
5Malaymanggamango; padlock
6Tamilமாங்காய்unripe mango fruit; kidney; gizzard
7Tamilமாanimal, beast; horse; elephant
8Old Tamil𑀫𑀸big
9Sanskritमहाcombining form of महत्; buffalo; great, large,...
10Proto-Indo-Aryanmaźʰā́
11Proto-Indo-Iranianmaȷ́ʰā́big, great
12Proto-Indo-Europeanméǵh₂sbig, great

via Finnish mehu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmehujuice; cordial
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
Every word from Proto-Indo-European méǵh₂s
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