Where does “mustavahakas” come from?

mustavahakas (Finnish) comes from Finnish vahakas, from Finnish kas, from Finnish katso!, from Finnish katsoa, from Proto-Finnic kaccodak, from Proto-Germanic gātijaną.

mustavahakas (Finnish): arched woodwax mushroom

Definitions

  1. arched woodwax mushroom

Ancestry of “mustavahakas”, step by step

mustavahakas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vahakas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvahakaswaxcap
2Finnishkaslook!, oh!, my!, behold!; look
3Finnishkatso!look!
4Finnishkatsoato look, have a look, take a look; to watch; to...
5Proto-Finnickaccodakto look
6Proto-Germanicgātijaną—

via Finnish musta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmustablack; black horse; Elative singular form of...
2Finnish-ntääFront vowel variant of -ntaa
Every word from Proto-Germanic gātijaną →Every word from Proto-Finnic kaccodak →Every word from Finnish katsoa →