Where does “mustamaalata” come from?

mustamaalata (Finnish) comes from Finnish maalata, from Finnish maali, from Old Swedish māl, from Old Swedish māla, from Old Norse mála, from Middle Low German mālen, from Old Saxon *mālōn, from Proto-West Germanic *mālēn — to strengthen; to bind; to change, exchange.

mustamaalata (Finnish): to denigrate, defame, discredit to criticise so as to besmirch

Definitions

  1. to denigrate, defame, discredit to criticise so as to besmirch

Ancestry of “mustamaalata”, step by step

mustamaalata traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish maalata

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmaalatato paint; to select, highlight; to score
2Finnishmaalipaint; target; goal
3Old Swedishmālmeasure, amount; sign
4Old Swedishmālato paint
5Old Norsemálato grind
6Middle Low Germanmālento draw, paint; to paint
7Old Saxon*mālōn—
8Proto-West Germanic*mālēnto paint
9Proto-Albanianmelanablack
10Proto-Indo-Europeanmelh₂-n-dull black
11Proto-Indo-Europeanmelh₂-to grind, to crush
12Proto-Indo-Europeanmel-soft; tender; weak; to deceive; to rub
13Proto-Indo-Europeanmey-to strengthen; to bind; to change, exchange

via Finnish musta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmustablack; black horse; Elative singular form of...
2Finnish-ntääFront vowel variant of -ntaa

Words derived from “mustamaalata”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European mey- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European mel- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European melh₂- →