Where does “meikkaaja” come from?

meikkaaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish meikata, from Finnish meikki, from English make, from Middle English make, from Middle English maken, from Old English macian, from Emilian mâcia, from Latin Macula — smear, rub.

meikkaaja (Finnish): makeup artist

Definitions

  1. makeup artist

Ancestry of “meikkaaja”, step by step

meikkaaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish meikata

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishmeikataTo apply makeup
2Finnishmeikkimakeup
3EnglishmakeTo create; To behave, to act; To tend; to...
4Middle EnglishmakeAlternative form of maken; easy
5Middle EnglishmakenTo make or create; to have something made
6Old Englishmacianto make
7Emilianmâciaspot, stain
8LatinMacula
9Proto-Indo-Europeansmh₁-tleh₂
10Proto-Indo-Europeansmeh₁-smear, rub

via Finnish

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishice
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*ja
3Proto-Germanicjahwand, also
4Proto-Germanic-hwand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
5Proto-Germanic-hwe
6Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
Every word from Proto-Indo-European smeh₁-Every word from Proto-Indo-European smh₁-tleh₂Every word from Latin Macula