Where does “mitenkuten” come from?

mitenkuten (Finnish) comes from Finnish kuten, from Finnish -ten, from Proto-Finnic -ten.

Ancestry of “mitenkuten”, step by step

mitenkuten traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kuten

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkutenas; such as; like
2Finnish-tenForms causative adverbs
3Proto-Finnic-ten—

via Finnish miten

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmitenhow
2Arabicمَتَىwhen
Every word from Proto-Finnic -ten →Every word from Finnish -ten →Every word from Finnish kuten →