Where does “mukes” come from?
mukes (Finnish) comes from Finnish muonituskeskus, from Finnish muonitus, from Finnish muonittaa, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
mukes (Finnish): A mess hall, chow hall, galley, mess decks US; mess UK
Definitions
- A mess hall, chow hall, galley, mess decks US; mess UK
Ancestry of “mukes”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | muonituskeskus | dining facility US, cookhouse UK |
| 2 | Finnish | muonitus | food supply; the act of supplying with food |
| 3 | Finnish | muonittaa | to supply with food, provision |
| 4 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 5 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 6 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 7 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |