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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 ; mess

Definitions

  1. A mess hall, chow hall, galley, mess decks ; mess

Ancestry of “mukes”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishmuonituskeskusA dining facility , cookhouse
2Finnishmuonitusfood supply; the act of supplying with food
3Finnishmuonittaato supply with food, provision
4Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
5Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
6Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
7Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →