Where does “muistinmenetys” come from?

muistinmenetys (Finnish) comes from Finnish menetys, from Finnish menettää, from Finnish mennä, from Proto-Finnic mendäk, from Proto-Uralic mene- — to go.

muistinmenetys (Finnish): memory loss, amnesia

Definitions

  1. memory loss, amnesia

Ancestry of “muistinmenetys”, step by step

muistinmenetys traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish menetys

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmenetysloss
2Finnishmenettääto lose, miss
3Finnishmennäto go; to take, pass, spend, go
4Proto-Finnicmendäkto go
5Proto-Uralicmene-to go

via Finnish muisti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmuistimemory; Third-person singular past form of...
2Finnishmuistaato remember, recall, recollect; Third-person...
3Proto-Finnicmuistadakto understand
4Proto-Finno-Ugricmuja-to touch, feel
Every word from Proto-Uralic mene- →Every word from Proto-Finnic mendäk →Every word from Finnish mennä →