Where does “massamuoti” come from?
massamuoti (Finnish) comes from Finnish muoti, from Swedish mod, from English mod, from English MAD, from Middle English mad, from Old English ġemǣd, from Proto-Germanic maidijaną, from Proto-Germanic maidaz — soft, tender, dear.
massamuoti (Finnish): mass market fashion, mainstream fashion
Definitions
- mass market fashion, mainstream fashion
Ancestry of “massamuoti”, step by step
massamuoti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish muoti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | muoti | vogue, fashion; vogue, fad |
| 2 | Swedish | mod | courage; feeling |
| 3 | English | mod | An unconventionally modern style of fashionable... |
| 4 | English | MAD | Initialism of mutually assured destruction;... |
| 5 | Middle English | mad | Mad, insane, deranged; not of sound mind;... |
| 6 | Old English | ġemǣd | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | maidijaną | to exchange, change |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | maidaz | hurt, wounded; mad, foolish; angry, enraged |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | mēy- | soft, tender, dear |
via Finnish massa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | massa | mass; bulk; paste |
| 2 | Swedish | mässa | a mass; an exhibition, an expo; to mass, to... |
| 3 | Old Norse | messa | mass, church service; to say mass |
| 4 | Latin | missa | Mass; Christian eucharistic liturgy; nominative... |
| 5 | Latin | missum | accusative supine of mittō; inflection of... |
| 6 | Latin | mittō | to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | meitō | to put forth, put out |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | meyth₂- | to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to... |