Where does “mustamuntjakki” come from?
mustamuntjakki (Finnish) comes from Finnish muntjakki, from Dutch muntjak, from Sundanese ᮙᮨᮔ᮪ᮎᮨᮊ᮪ — small deer.
Ancestry of “mustamuntjakki”, step by step
mustamuntjakki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish muntjakki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | muntjakki | muntjac small deer of the genus |
| 2 | Dutch | muntjak | muntjac, deer of the genus "Muntiacus" |
| 3 | Sundanese | ᮙᮨᮔ᮪ᮎᮨᮊ᮪ | small deer |
via Finnish musta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | musta | black; black horse; Elative singular form of... |
| 2 | Finnish | -ntää | Front vowel variant of -ntaa |