Where does “mustapaku” come from?

mustapaku (Finnish) comes from Finnish paku, from Finnish pakettiauto, from Finnish auto, from Finnish automobiili, from French automobile, from French auto-, from Ancient Greek αὐτο-, from Ancient Greek αὐτός — Postpositional intensifying particle: indeed, at any rate, in fact.

mustapaku (Finnish): tambaqui, black pacu, black-finned pacu, giant pacu, Colossoma macropomum large freshwater fish native to tropical South America

Definitions

  1. tambaqui, black pacu, black-finned pacu, giant pacu, Colossoma macropomum large freshwater fish native to tropical South America

Ancestry of “mustapaku”, step by step

mustapaku traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish paku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpakuvan vehicle
2Finnishpakettiautovan; delivery van
3Finnishautocar, automobile
4Finnishautomobiiliautomobile, car
5Frenchautomobileautomotive; automobile
6Frenchauto-auto- regarding oneself
7Ancient Greekαὐτο-self-
8Ancient Greekαὐτόςαὐτή f, αὐτό n; "first/second declension";...
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂ewaway from, off; again
10Proto-Indo-EuropeanǵʰePostpositional intensifying particle: indeed, at any rate, in fact

via Finnish musta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmustablack; black horse; Elative singular form of...
2Finnish-ntääFront vowel variant of -ntaa
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰeEvery word from Proto-Indo-European h₂ewEvery word from Ancient Greek αὐτός
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